The Cambodian government approved a plan to plant land border markers between Cambodia and Vietnam at its weekly cabinet meeting in Phnom Penh on August 4.

Chairman of the Cambodian Government's Border Committee Var Kimhong told the meeting that the supplementary treaty to the 1985 Vietnam-Cambodia Border Delimitation Treaty signed in 2005 by the two countries' prime ministers served as a necessary basis for building the borderline and an important tool for delimitating and planting border markers between the two countries.

He said the two sides had agreed to start the planting of border markers in early September. The work is expected to be finished before December of 2008.

The Cambodian Government's Border Negotiation Board told the meeting that of more than 350 border markers to be installed on the 1,270km borderline between Cambodia and Vietnam, the two sides had agreed to first plant seven major markers at seven international and national border gates of the two countries.

The first border markers will be planted at the Moc Bai border gate in Vietnam's Tay Ninh province and the Bavet border gate in Cambodia's Svay Rieng province on September 7 in the witness of the two countries' prime ministers, said the board.