Laos and Vietnam celebrated the first achievement of an additional
border demarcation project on Friday at the Dansavan-Laobao
immigration checkpoint between Savannakhet province in Laos and Quang
Tri province in Vietnam . ( See the whole set of the ceremony on this
site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/densavanh )
The first two markers installed are part of the project's 826
additional border markers the two nations are scheduled to install by
2014, in a bid to more obviously define the border between the two
nations.
The ceremony was opened by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of
Foreign Affairs Dr Thongloun Sisoulith and his Vietnamese counterpart
Pham Gia Khiem and was attended by high-ranking officials from both
countries.
The event was held to coincide with the 46 th anniversary of the
establishment of diplomatic relations between Laos and Vietnam .
Laos shares a 2,067-km border with Vietnam . The north-south border is
the longest border Laos shares with any of its neighbours.
Border survey and demarcation with Vietnam started in 1977 and was
basically completed in 1986 with the installation of 214 markers.