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Updates from Vietnamese Press on Border Crossing Agreements1

April 2005

Vietnam, Laos and China finally agreed on their border crossing-point at a five-day meeting which concluded in Hanoi on 8 April 2005 after two rounds of negotiations. The trio plan to identify their border crossing-point at the specific site later this month, complete a relevant map based on a tri-lateral agreement and sign the agreement on the issue later this year. The three parties agreed to hold the third round of negotiations in Beijing, China, in the second half of this year to further discuss the issue.

Viet Nam, Cambodia work to strengthen border security
Vietnamese and Cambodian police chiefs have agreed on measures to ensure security and social order along the two countries' common border.

During their talks in Phnom Penh on 9 April 2005, Vietnamese Minister of Public Security General Le Hong Anh and Cambodian Minister of the Interior Samdech Norodom Sirivudh were of the same view that the focus of those measures is to prevent illegal immigration, the trafficking of women and children, the smuggling of goods, and counter drug-related and trans-national crime and international terrorists.

The Vietnamese and Cambodian officials exchanged information on the operations of hostile forces, who want to undermine the two nations' traditional friendship and solidarity and damage the security, social order, stability and development of the two countries. They agreed to increase the exchange of professional experience and information to enhance the efficiency of the two ministries' cooperation, which was reflected by a plan to carry out a bilateral cooperation agreement for 2005, which was signed at the end of the talks.

PM Hun Sen of Cambodia praised the cooperation between the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security and the Cambodian Ministry of the Interior in the recent past. The two ministries’ cooperation has brought about important results, including the organisation of regular talks and exchanges of officials' visits, especially to localities sharing the border, conducted to discuss specific issues of mutual concern. The Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security has created every conceivable condition to help the Cambodian partner in personnel training in their country and in Viet Nam.

Lao PM welcomes senior Vietnamese public security officers
Lao Prime Minister Bounyang Vorachith welcomed a delegation of the Vietnamese Public Security led by its Minister General Le Hong Anh to Laos, following a visit by General Secretary Nong Duc Manh of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

This is a new vivid manifestation of the implementation of agreements reached between the two parties and states and a great encouragement to the Lao security forces, said PM Bounyang Vorachith, who is also a politburo member of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Central Committee, while receiving General Le Hong Anh and his entourage in Vientiane on April 5.

The Lao PM recalled the traditional friendship and co-operation between Laos and Vietnam and the two ministries in the past struggle for national liberation as well as in national construction and development. The victories gained by the Lao people under the leadership of the LPRP are inseparable from the precious and effective assistance and support from the Vietnamese party, government and people, he affirmed. The same day, the two high-ranking delegations held talks, informing each other of socio-economic achievements and the maintenance of political stability and social security in each country and a co-operation plan.

The two sides also discussed international and regional issues of mutual concern. They noted with satisfaction the fine development of their co-operation. On this occasion, Minister Le Hong Anh and Lao Security Minister Thongban Sengaphone signed a co-operation plan for 2005 between the two ministries. Earlier on April 4, Minister Le Hong Anh and his party laid a wreath at the Monument to Fallen Combatants in Vientiane and visited the construction site of the Lao Journalists' Association office built with the help of the Vietnam Journalists' Association.

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