Mr. Hun Sen (L) and Vietnamese PM (R) inaugurated border marker number 171 on 24th Feb, 2008.Radio Free Asia
By Zakariya
27th February, 2008
Translated from Khmer by Khmerization
A Cambodian senior border official said on 26th February that Cambodia and Vietnam have so far planted 100 border markers along 9 provinces, among the more than 300 border markers due to be planted by 2012 along the 1270 kilometre-long borders.
Mr. Var Kim Hong, Senior Minister and Chairman of Cambodian Border Committee, said that Cambodia and Vietnam have agreed on a master plan to plant border markers since 2005 which is due to be completed in 2012.
He said that there are 9 provinces along the Khmer-Vietnam borders that need to be demarcated, ie. Kampot, Takeo, Kampong Cham, Prey Veng, Svay Rieng, Rattanakiri, Mondulkiri and Kratie.
He said: “We have to plant 314 border markers. So it is not easy like we are putting up a fence around our small plots of lands. What can we do? First, we cannot even plant one border marker along the Khmer-Thai borders near the Preah Vihear temple. What can we do? It is not as easy as the Land Titles Office fencing a plot of lands.”
Mr. Sam Rainsy, president of the opposition of the eponymous Sam Rainsy Party, said that the plantings of the border markers have taken too long which caused a lot of sufferings to the people living along the borders because Vietnam has pushed into Cambodian territories everyday causing a lot of Khmer farmers to lose their farmlands.
He said that the demarcations and the plantings of border markers must be based on the internationally-recognised maps. He said: “we must use the maps drawn during Prince Sihanouk’s Sangkum Reastr Niyum that have been internationally-recognised and kept at the United Nations. I believe that these maps are the appropriate maps to be used in the plantings of the border markers. Our people on the western side have a Preah Vihear issue with Thailand. But on the eastern side, Vietnam has swallowed huge areas of our territories.”
During the 8th meeting between Cambodian and Vietnam on border issues between Mr. Long Visalo, Cambodia’s Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs and Mr. Nguyen Hong Thao, Vice-President of Border Committee of Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, both sides have agreed to amend the original master plan for the plantings of border markers from 2009-2012.
By Zakariya
27th February, 2008
Translated from Khmer by Khmerization
A Cambodian senior border official said on 26th February that Cambodia and Vietnam have so far planted 100 border markers along 9 provinces, among the more than 300 border markers due to be planted by 2012 along the 1270 kilometre-long borders.
Mr. Var Kim Hong, Senior Minister and Chairman of Cambodian Border Committee, said that Cambodia and Vietnam have agreed on a master plan to plant border markers since 2005 which is due to be completed in 2012.
He said that there are 9 provinces along the Khmer-Vietnam borders that need to be demarcated, ie. Kampot, Takeo, Kampong Cham, Prey Veng, Svay Rieng, Rattanakiri, Mondulkiri and Kratie.
He said: “We have to plant 314 border markers. So it is not easy like we are putting up a fence around our small plots of lands. What can we do? First, we cannot even plant one border marker along the Khmer-Thai borders near the Preah Vihear temple. What can we do? It is not as easy as the Land Titles Office fencing a plot of lands.”
Mr. Sam Rainsy, president of the opposition of the eponymous Sam Rainsy Party, said that the plantings of the border markers have taken too long which caused a lot of sufferings to the people living along the borders because Vietnam has pushed into Cambodian territories everyday causing a lot of Khmer farmers to lose their farmlands.
He said that the demarcations and the plantings of border markers must be based on the internationally-recognised maps. He said: “we must use the maps drawn during Prince Sihanouk’s Sangkum Reastr Niyum that have been internationally-recognised and kept at the United Nations. I believe that these maps are the appropriate maps to be used in the plantings of the border markers. Our people on the western side have a Preah Vihear issue with Thailand. But on the eastern side, Vietnam has swallowed huge areas of our territories.”
During the 8th meeting between Cambodian and Vietnam on border issues between Mr. Long Visalo, Cambodia’s Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs and Mr. Nguyen Hong Thao, Vice-President of Border Committee of Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, both sides have agreed to amend the original master plan for the plantings of border markers from 2009-2012.
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