China, Vietnam agree on borders
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 9:50 amChina, Vietnam agree on borders
Posted: 07:28 PM ET
(CNN) — China and Vietnam have settled a lengthy border dispute nearly 30 years after a month-long war that left thousands dead, according to a joint statement the two governments issued Wednesday, reported by China’s state-run news agency.
The settlement came during a December 28-31 meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam, Xinhua reported, and settled all final issues remaining from a 1999 China-Vietnam land boundary treaty.
Xinhua called the settlement “a major event of historical significance” in the relations between the two countries.
A ceremony marking the agreement and erection of land border markers will be held later, the news agency said.
China, which supported North Vietnam during the Vietnam War, invaded Vietnam in February 1979, two months after Vietnam invaded Cambodia and ousted the pro-Beijing Pol Pot regime. The 29-day incursion ended with the last Chinese troops leaving on March 19 without having forced the Vietnamese out of Cambodia.
During the next two decades, both sides stationed hundreds of thousands of troops along the border until the 1999 treaty.
Posted: 07:28 PM ET
(CNN) — China and Vietnam have settled a lengthy border dispute nearly 30 years after a month-long war that left thousands dead, according to a joint statement the two governments issued Wednesday, reported by China’s state-run news agency.
The settlement came during a December 28-31 meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam, Xinhua reported, and settled all final issues remaining from a 1999 China-Vietnam land boundary treaty.
Xinhua called the settlement “a major event of historical significance” in the relations between the two countries.
A ceremony marking the agreement and erection of land border markers will be held later, the news agency said.
China, which supported North Vietnam during the Vietnam War, invaded Vietnam in February 1979, two months after Vietnam invaded Cambodia and ousted the pro-Beijing Pol Pot regime. The 29-day incursion ended with the last Chinese troops leaving on March 19 without having forced the Vietnamese out of Cambodia.
During the next two decades, both sides stationed hundreds of thousands of troops along the border until the 1999 treaty.