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Khmer Times/Ven Rathavong Friday, 19 August 2016
The foreign ministry has sent a diplomatic note to Vietnam’s foreign ministry, asking Vietnam to stop all construction projects and to refrain from taking any action along the border between the two countries in areas that have not been demarcated.
The foreign ministry’s reaction comes after officials from the Vietnamese government started to construct buildings and a border checkpoint in O’Yadav district.
The construction is near the border in Pok Nhai commune across from Vietnam’s Gai Lai province, an area designated as no-man’s land in an agreement between the two countries dating back to January 17, 1995.
According to a diplomatic note sent on Thursday, Cambodia’s foreign ministry pointed out that the ministry has sent diplomatic notes to Vietnam 23 times since 2011 to ask Vietnam to stop constructing buildings along the border in Rattanakiri, Takeo, Kandal, Svay Rieng and Mondulkiri provinces.
“The Royal government of Cambodia asked the Vietnamese government once again to please immediately stop all construction,” read the statement, adding that Cambodia also asked Vietnam to maintain the environment in those areas.
Cambodia called on Vietnam to ban its citizens from planting crops or doing anything in the areas which have been not demarcated and to wait until the joint border commission made up of officials from both countries finishes the demarcation.
It added that both countries agreed in March that they will request the president of France to provide experts to copy the border line from the Bonne map to the UTM map. The joint border commission will hold a closed meeting in Phnom Penh at the end of August to discuss the request for experts from France.
