Vietnam – Cambodia border landmark inaugurated

      Vietnam’s Southern Province of An Giang and Cambodia’s Takeo province on March 2 held a ceremony to mark the planting of the 281st border marker.
This border marker designates the international border line separating Lac Quoi Commune in Tri Ton District of An Giang Province from Som Commune in Kirivong District of Takeo province.
The border marker planting was part of the implementation of the Vietnam – Cambodia Land Border Treaty.
It marks the fact that after two years of negotiations and field surveys, the demarcation of the international border between Vietnam’s An Giang Province and Cambodia’s Takeo and Kandal provinces is completed. Border markers having been placed along 99.6 kilometers of the borderline.
The two sides have also agreed upon sites for another 46 border markers, designating the final 60 kilometers of the borderline between Vietnam’s An Giang Province and Cambodia’s Takeo and Kandal provinces.