Vietnam, China mark two decades of signing Land Border Treaty

Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi co-chair a ceremony in Vietnam’s Mong Cai city on August 23 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the signing of the treaty.

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Deputy PM and FM Pham Binh Minh addresses delegates at the event that also marks 10 years of implementing three bilateral documents, namely a Protocol on Border Demarcation and Marker Planting, the Agreement on Border Management and the Agreement on Border Gates and Border Gate Management.

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Vietnamese and Chinese delegates attend the cerebration.

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Chinese FM Wang Yi speaks at the event.

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The two FMs make a tour of a photo exhibition highlighting the two countries’ land border delimitation and demarcation efforts.

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Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh welcomes Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the boundary line of Bac Luan I bridge (on the Vietnamese side).

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The two FMs visited the border landmark 1369 in Vietnam.

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Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh painted on landmark 1369 in the presence of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi welcomes Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh at the boundary line of Bac Luan I bridge.

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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh visited the border landmark 1369 in China. Here FM Wang painted on the landmark in the presence of the Vietnamese diplomat.