The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) and the Lao Front for National Construction (LFNC) co-held their 7th international conference on the nations’ border of peace, friendship, and cooperation for mutual development in Laos’ Savannakhet province on November 22.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has lauded the northern province of Lang Son for its efforts in maintaining a borderline of peace and friendship with China, thus well serving socio-economic development.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on June 10 presented 5,000 national flags to fishermen through the programme “One million national flags for fishermen.”

The central province of Quang Binh and the Lao province of Savannakhet have agreed to strengthen their cooperation in border-related issues.

The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang will create favourable conditions for citizens of Vietnam and Cambodia to cross the border for visits during the upcoming traditional New Year (Tet) festival.

Vietnam and Laos share more than 2,000 km of border. Along the border there are many Vietnamese-Lao family living happily, helping to strengthen the two countries’ relations.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc urged the public security forces of Vietnam and Laos to strengthen collaboration to ensure political security and social order in both countries,

Vietnam’s central province of Quang Nam and Laos’ southeastern province of Sekong agreed to enhance comprehensive cooperation during a high-level meeting in Tam Ky city, Quang Nam, on August 7.

The first Vietnam-Laos border friendship exchange will take place in the northern mountainous province of Son La on July 22-24.

The Vietnam Fatherland Front and the National Council of the Solidarity Front for the Development of Cambodian Motherland have expressed resolve to successfully organise the third front conference,.

The completion of increasing and upgrading border markers along the borderline between Kon Tum province and Laos’s Attapeu and Sekong provinces has created new opportunities for their cooperation.

The provinces of Quang Tri in the central region of Vietnam and Savannakhet and Salavan in Laos have reviewed the progress of a joint project to increase and upgrade border markers along the border.

The Vietnamese and Lao chairpersons of the two countries’ joint committee for border marker planting held a meeting in Hanoi on March 1 and 2.

Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to foster trade and investment along their borderline at the fifth meeting of the Thai-Cambodian Joint Trade Committee.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has warned that legal actions would be taken against anyone who continues to accuse the government of using a false map to demarcate the country's border line.