Thursday, January 1, 2009

Vietnam And China Demarcate Land Border

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From The International Herald Tribune:

HANOI, Vietnam: Vietnam and China have completed the demarcation of their long-disputed land border in what they hailed as an event of "great historic significance" 30 years after their brief but bloody border war, state media reported Thursday.

The two countries signed a land border agreement in 1999, but it took them nine years to demarcate the 840-mile (1,350-kilometer) frontier.

The demarcation is "an event of great historic significance in Vietnam-China relations," Vietnam News Agency quoted a joint statement issued Wednesday at the end of their four-day meeting in Hanoi as saying.

The two sides, represented by Vietnamese Vice Foreign Minister Vu Dung and his Chinese counterpart Wu Dawei, pledged to build a border of "peace, friendship and long-term stability," it said.

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