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| Le Hoai Trung, left, Vietnam’s deputy minister of foreign affairs, shakes hands with Var Kimhong, Cambodia’s minister in charge of border affairs, at the Council of Ministers building in Phnom Penh on Monday. (Siv Channa/The Cambodia Daily) |
Vietnam Denies Violating Border Zone, Official Says
Cambodia Daily | 30 August 2016
Vietnamese authorities deny carrying out
construction on undemarcated “white zone” areas along the border, but
will review Cambodia’s complaints, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs
official said during a meeting in Phnom Penh on Monday between border
officials from both countries.
Since
last year, Cambodia has sent a number of sternly worded diplomatic
notes to Vietnam [leaving Vietnam shaking in its Ho Chi Minh sandals] demanding that they cease building roads and outposts
in the white zones, which cannot be used until the are set.
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| Members of the Cambodia-Vietnam Joint Border Committee meet at the Council of Ministers building in Phnom Penh yesterday. (Siv Channa/The Cambodia Daily) |
In response to the diplomatic notes,
Vietnamese officials denied any wrongdoing, said Long Visalo, the
Cambodian ministry’s secretary of state, during a break in a meeting of
the two countries’ Joint Border Committee, which has been working to
demarcate the border since 1995.
“Normally,
Vietnam says that they did it on their land,” Mr. Visalo told reporters
outside the meeting at the Council of Ministers building. “Finally,
they said they would take this to discuss it with ministries that were
involved.”
If the building on
disputed land continues, Mr. Visalo said he would ask Hanoi to demolish
the structures. The construction has occurred in border provinces
including Ratanakkiri, Mondolkiri and Svay Rieng.
Var Kimhong, the minister in charge of
border affairs, also said during the break that both sides were now
seeking more copies of the original colonial-era maps of the shared
border to help with demarcation.
A
number of opposition CNRP lawmakers last year claimed that the two
sides have been ignoring the original French maps, which are the only
ones legally mandated by Cambodia’s Constitution, and said they were
instead using new Vietnamese-drawn maps.
Mr.
Kimhong urged people not to be too quick to accuse Vietnam of
“invading” Cambodia while demarcation of the border was incomplete.
“Invading is the use of force. This is secret building,” he said of Vietnam’s alleged encroachments.
Looking at those Vietcong/Yuon thieves, they are really hypocrite and have no shame by cheating, continuing to steal more land and water (islands) of Cambodia. They are very good at twisting story without telling the truths about what they are wrongly doing. They to love cheat and manipulate French leaders and experts about Khmer territory. French needs to be aware that Vietcong/Yuon thieves can do anything without shame because they have to survive to kill someone to steal land and anything. That is Yuon/Vietnamese past barbaric behaviors towards neighbors. As you know, Cham (Islam) people and Champa (country) in central Vietnam were gone and disappeared from the planet. Khmer people can claim the South Vietnam belonging Cambodia and there was Khmer city used to be Prey Nokor in Southern Cambodia (Khmer Krom) before Saigon and then Ho Chi Minh city were named by evil Yuon/Vietnamese thieves.
ReplyDeleteLong Visalo aka Long OUI, SALAUD [long Yes, Bastard] talks big, but wait and see what will happen.
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