The 13th round of border negotiations between China and Vietnam
was held in Nanning, capital city of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, from
Thursday to Saturday.
Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei and his Vietnamese
counterpart Vu Dung co-chaired the border negotiations. The two
sides reviewed the progress achieved since the last round and made
further arrangements for the next phase of work.
The two sides agreed to speed up the process on the demarcation
and erection of border markers along their land boundaries in order
to complete the task before 2008.
The two sides will carefully investigate joint exploitation of
the South China Sea. They also agreed to push forward negotiations
on the demarcation and joint exploitation of the maritime space at
the entrance to the Beibu Gulf.
(Xinhua News Agency January 21, 2007)