Participants praised efforts by both countries’ relevant agencies in carrying out a project to reinforce markers along the shared border. 

They agreed on a proposal that the two governments should review the project and sign a protocol on the Vietnam-Laos border and markers and an agreement on border and border checkpoint management regulations. 

They also agreed upon 2016 plan and accelerate the implementation of an agreement between the two governments to address free migration and illegal marriage in Vietnam-Laos border areas.

On March 2, head of the Vietnamese sub-committee Deputy Foreign Minister Ho Xuan Son and his Lao counterpart Saleumxay Kommasith signed addenda to the protocol on Vietnam-Laos borderline and national border markers.