In a joint meeting in March 2004, Laos and Thailand pledged to complete land-border demarcation by year’s end and river-border demarcation by the end of 2005. Almost a year later, the two sides are still far from reaching their goal of completing land-border demarcation and hardly made any progress on the river-border survey, due to disagreements over survey requirements.
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