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Border Affairs Minister Var Kimhong.Friday, 26 February 2010
By Meas Sokchea
Phnom Penh Post
CAMBODIAN and Vietnamese officials say they are pushing forward bilateral demarcation efforts on northern stretches of the two countries’ 1,270-kilometre shared border.
The state-run Voice of Vietnam radio station announced on Wednesday that army engineers in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong were
gearing up for the planting of eight border markers on the frontier with Cambodia’s Mondulkiri province.
Prime Minister Hun Sen also announced Wednesday that, by the end of 2010, the government was hoping to finish the demarcation process for the 500-kilometre stretch of border running from the northernmost point of Ratanakkiri province into Kratie province.
“To the east we are searching to plant the [border] markers. This year [we] are trying to demarcate 500 kilometres [of the border], starting from where the Cambodian, Lao and Vietnamese borders meet down to Kratie province,” he said.
The demarcation of the border with Vietnam has been dogged by controversy in recent months, with the opposition Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) alleging that four border markers in Svay Rieng province have been placed up to 500 metres inside Cambodia’s legal territory, as defined on French- and American-drawn maps.
Government officials deny the allegations, saying party president Sam Rainsy falsified public documents in order to demonstrate the incursions were real.
SRP spokesman Kimsour Phirith said that the party also planned to investigate the placement of border markers in other provinces, citing a lack of transparency in the placing of the Svay Rieng markers.
“It was mostly Vietnamese engineers who planted those posts – there was only one [official] from Cambodia who followed the Vietnamese experts,” he said, adding that the investigations would begin in Mondulkiri.
When contacted on Thursday, Var Kimhong, senior minister in charge of border affairs, did not give many details on the progress of the demarcation process in the northeast, but said they would be carried out bilaterally, with the involvement of both Cambodian and Vietnamese officials.
“We plan to finish planting demarcation posts in Mondulkiri according to the bilateral plan after we have a meeting in Ho Chi Minh City,” he said.
Mondulkiri provincial Governor Chan Yoeun and Kratie provincial Governor Kham Phoen could not be reached for comment.
By Meas Sokchea
Phnom Penh Post
CAMBODIAN and Vietnamese officials say they are pushing forward bilateral demarcation efforts on northern stretches of the two countries’ 1,270-kilometre shared border.
The state-run Voice of Vietnam radio station announced on Wednesday that army engineers in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong were
gearing up for the planting of eight border markers on the frontier with Cambodia’s Mondulkiri province.
Prime Minister Hun Sen also announced Wednesday that, by the end of 2010, the government was hoping to finish the demarcation process for the 500-kilometre stretch of border running from the northernmost point of Ratanakkiri province into Kratie province.
“To the east we are searching to plant the [border] markers. This year [we] are trying to demarcate 500 kilometres [of the border], starting from where the Cambodian, Lao and Vietnamese borders meet down to Kratie province,” he said.
The demarcation of the border with Vietnam has been dogged by controversy in recent months, with the opposition Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) alleging that four border markers in Svay Rieng province have been placed up to 500 metres inside Cambodia’s legal territory, as defined on French- and American-drawn maps.
Government officials deny the allegations, saying party president Sam Rainsy falsified public documents in order to demonstrate the incursions were real.
SRP spokesman Kimsour Phirith said that the party also planned to investigate the placement of border markers in other provinces, citing a lack of transparency in the placing of the Svay Rieng markers.
“It was mostly Vietnamese engineers who planted those posts – there was only one [official] from Cambodia who followed the Vietnamese experts,” he said, adding that the investigations would begin in Mondulkiri.
When contacted on Thursday, Var Kimhong, senior minister in charge of border affairs, did not give many details on the progress of the demarcation process in the northeast, but said they would be carried out bilaterally, with the involvement of both Cambodian and Vietnamese officials.
“We plan to finish planting demarcation posts in Mondulkiri according to the bilateral plan after we have a meeting in Ho Chi Minh City,” he said.
Mondulkiri provincial Governor Chan Yoeun and Kratie provincial Governor Kham Phoen could not be reached for comment.
6 comments:
ah kbot sva kim hong
Sva Kimhong is an ethnic Vietnamese who knows how to speak and write Khmer. Deep down he's a Yuon working for Hanoi. I don't know when the Chimpanzee People Party going to realize it but our leaders are the betrayers of Cambodia and she will get swallowed by Viet sooner or later if this monkey business keeps on continuing. The first step is to remove all ethnic Vietnamese out of high government positions and replaced with Khmer ethnics. Hun Sen is a sell out to his own countrymen. I hope he f* dies!
He is Vietnamese. Appointed by Hanoi please wake up!. Hun Sen is now loaded with USD in his bank account. He careless about his own country. If none of the CPP below him don't wake up Cambodia will be populated by Vietnames in 10 years.
True Khmer
Var Kimhong has lived in France for a long time. He was a good colleague of Sean Pengse, a strong critic of the government's border policies. Var Kimhong used to have similar views with Mr. Pengse, but he is blinded by power, greed and money so he joined the Cambodian People's Party and become one of Cambodia's traitors.
Ah svar tried to hurry up to give more khmer lands to ah youns!!!!!!!!!!
Border demarcation don't mean craps if Youn don't respect it. Don't think Khmer is not losing any land with this deal. The demarcation is just a temporary marking. Sometime in the future Youn will ignore and relocate the marking. It's going to take more than markers to stop Youn from expanding its territory. Youn's mentality is about gaining. Youn is an invasive creature. Like a cancer, it will spread and eat anything in front and around it.
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