Phnom Penh (FN), Nov. 25 – As of 25 November 2020, Viet Nam has removed 26 border tents, Kandal governor Kong Sophoan told Fresh News on Wednesday.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Xuan Phuc had a phone conversation on 24 November 2020.

Both prime ministers applauded the ratification of the Supplementary Treaty to the Treaty on Delimitation of State Border in 1985 and the Supplementary Treaty in 2005, and to the Protocol on Recognition of Accomplishment of Land Demarcation and Border Marker Planting by their respective legislative institutions.

They highlighted the importance of the recent exchange of topographical border maps between Cambodia and Viet Nam.

Both sides agreed to speed up the procedures to have the instruments of ratification of the said Supplementary Treaty and the Protocol 2019 exchanged as soon as possible. They commit to resolve the settlement of the remaining 16 percent of the land boundary work, with a view to transform Cambodia-Viet Nam border into a border of peace, stability, cooperation and development.

The areas, which is situated in Vietnam and two Cambodian provinces, Kandal and Takeo, have not been demarcated.
=FRESH NEWS