The target was set at the third meeting of the Vietnam-Laos Joint Committee on Border Marker Planting, held in the central city of Da Nang on August 21-23.

The Vietnamese delegation was led by Deputy Foreign Minister Ho Xuan Son, who is also Chair of the National Border Committee and Chair of the Vietnam-Laos Joint Committee on Border Marker Planting.

The Laos delegation was headed by Deputy Foreign Minister, President of the Laos-Vietnam Joint Border Marker Planting Committee, Bounkeut Sangsomsak.

The two sides spoke highly of the efforts made by the committee in planting more border markers along their common borderline, saying between February and August 2010, Vietnam and Laos defined 147 locations and planted 170 markers.

They have planned to define 87 additional locations and plant 120 markers from now to the end of the year.

The chairmen of the joint committee discussed preparations for the 20^th annual meeting on border management between the two countries in December this year in Luang Prabang city of Laos.