Four days after the national elections, the Khmer Rise Party (KRP) has spearheaded a petition to the Constitutional Council, requesting that it revises a treaty to push the government to negotiate with Vietnam for the handover of Phu Quoc island, known in Khmer as Koh Trol.

 

KRP president Prum Piseth told The Post on Thursday that a major piece of the party’s platform involved retrieving the territory from Vietnamese control.

 

He claimed the party would set out to collect 50,000 thumbprints on the petition and ask the council to nullify a 2005 territorial treaty.

 

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That treaty signed in 2005 gave all rights to Vietnam Cambodia has neither the armed forces or legal power to threaten Vietnam for the return of said island.