Vietnam, Cambodia to enhance ties in border management, defence

The event, held in An Giang Province, was part of the two countries' border friendship exchange programme.

At the meeting, the two sides said the countries' border defence forces need to continue creating favourable conditions for border marker planting to be completed as scheduled. They also need to protect the achievements attained so far to serve the signing of a border agreement, helping build a Vietnam-Cambodia border of peace, stability, friendship, and cooperation.

The officials also agreed to coordinate in the prevention of illegal exit from and entry into each country, fight against non-traditional crimes, and search and rescue in disasters. Vietnam and Cambodia share 1,137km of land border that runs across ten Vietnamese and nine Cambodian provinces.