Preparations for Vietnam-Laos border landmark upgrade

(KPL) Representatives of ten provinces of neighbouring Laos are seating in a three-day conference in central Quang Tri province to discuss the demarcation between Vietnam and Laos.

According to the Vietnam News Agency - VNA, at the conference, co-organised
by the Foreign Ministry's National Border Committee and Quang Tri People's
Committee from July 16-18, the participants will be introduced to the plan
and steps for its implementation.

From 1978 to 1987, Vietnam and Laos basically completed the border
demarcation and the border marker plantation on their 2,067 km common border
line.

Then, the two countries decided to plant more and upgrade landmarks in order
to make the borderline management and protection more effectively.
Initially, 59 landmarks are scheduled to be planted from now to the end of
2008.

The 10 localities are the northern mountainous provinces of Dien Bien and
Son La, the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum and the central provinces
of Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri, Thua Thien-Hue and
Quang Nam.