FM Spokeswoman on Sino-Vietnamese Land Boundary Demarcation

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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Friday, December 28, 2001

FM Spokeswoman on Sino-Vietnamese Land Boundary Demarcation

The land boundary demarcation between China and Vietnam is an important step for the two countries who are in the process of settling the boundary issue, said the Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue Thursday afternoon.

She told a regular press conference that ceremonies for the unveiling of the first land boundary tablet was held Thursday morning in Dongxing of Guangxi in China and Mong Cai in Vietnam.

The move meant the start of implementation of the land boundary treaty between the two countries and of the surveying of boundary and establishment of boundary tablets, she noted.

The spokeswoman said that land boundary demarcation is of significance in safeguarding the peace and stability of the border regions between China and Vietnam, and helps promote personnel contact and trade cooperation and furthers the good-neighborly relations between the two countries.

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his counterpart Le Cong Phung, both heads of the delegations of the Sino-Vietnamese negotiations on land boundary demarcation, attended the ceremonies.

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