National Assembly ratifies two border agreements

The National Assembly yesterday ratified the 1985 supplementary treaty and 2005 agreement on border demarcation between Cambodia and Vietnam to foster good relations and maintain peace along the border. Hun Neng, chairman of National Assembly’s commission on Interior, National Defence and Public Function, said that the draft law is an important legal instrument for the management of land, people and farms along the borders.

“These are important documents to protect territorial sovereignty of the Kingdom defined as a borderline without any changes and to maintain a peaceful border, stability, friendship, cooperation and development in all sectors,” Mr Neng said. In October, Prime Minister Hun Sen and his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Xuan Phuc signed two legal documents – a document to support a 1985 supplemental protocol and 2005 agreement on border demarcation, as well as a document to acknowledge the demarcations as legal documents.

Mr Hun Sen and Nguyen Xuan Phuc also signed 84 percent of border demarcation work completed between the two nations since 2005. CPP lawmaker and Defence Minister General Tea Banh yesterday said during the session that it is a huge achievement for the government by succeeding in demarcating 84 percent of border markers between Cambodia and Vietnam for more than a decade.

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