The Vietnamese delegation was led by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chairman of the National Border Committee, Le Hoai Trung, while the leader of the Cambodian delegation was State Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs Sok Phal.
Attending the meeting were representatives of relevant ministries and branches of the two countries. The meeting took place in an atmosphere of friendship, sincerity and mutual trust. The two sides assessed the current status of the gate system on the Vietnam-Cambodia land border and agreed that the increasingly developed border system has contributed to promoting economic and commercial activities. services and investment in border provinces, improving the lives of people in border areas.
The two sides need to continue to perfect border gates to meet the increasing demand for cross-border exchanges of people, vehicles and goods between the two sides.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chairman of the National Border Committee, Le Hoai Trung welcomes the State Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs of Cambodia Sok Phal.
Accordingly, the two sides exchanged views on the type of border gate, the list of border gates operating on the entire border line, agreed to jointly research, exchange and propose solutions to standardize and develop. the system of land border border gates between the two countries in a practical and efficient direction, avoiding the spread of waste, in accordance with the development reality of each locality, in compliance with the provisions of law and in accordance with the regulations. general development plan of each country.
The immediate task is to coordinate to organize bilateral surveys of pairs of border gates that the two sides have proposed to open and upgrade within the framework of the 9th Vietnam-Cambodia Conference on Cooperation and Development in border provinces. and the 10th time, in order to exchange and agree with each pair of concerned provinces on the policy as well as a roadmap to open and upgrade each specific pair of border gates in the future.
In addition, to facilitate the coordination of border work in the new situation, at this meeting, the two sides agreed to report to the two governments to allow the drafting of the "Agreement on Border Checkpoints and Regulations. to regulate the border gate management on the Vietnam - Cambodia mainland "in order to consolidate and further develop friendly and traditional relations and promote cross-border trade between the two countries.
The Vietnamese side will soon give the Cambodian side a draft of this agreement for study. At the end of the meeting, the two sides signed a Memorandum of Understanding to record the results of the exchange and agreed to hold the next meeting of the Working Group in the second quarter of 2020.
