PM: No Land for Vietnamese

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Prime Minister Hun Sen has implored those living along the border with Vietnam to stop renting land to Vietnamese nationals and ordered his government to speed up a demarcation process that has been slow to accurately define the country’s borders. In a Facebook post after a meeting with civil servants in Takeo province on Tuesday, Mr. Hun Sen said the province’s proximity to Vietnam made it imperative that provincial government officials did more to “enhance cooperation” with their eastern neighbor and introduce more cross-cultural exchanges.
 

Despite his desire for closer ties betweeb the province and Vietnam, the premier made it clear that renting Cambodian land to anyone from Vietnam was strongly prohibited. “We forbid them from renting land to Vietnamese people. This is not only for Takeo province, but for every province which shares a border with Vietnam,” he wrote. “For border work, authorities must prepare the border poles as soon as possible.”
 

Last October, the Interior Ministry sent a letter to every governor of a province along the border with Vietnam, telling them to stop any residents renting or selling land to Vietnamese nationals, citing reports that farmers were allowing foreigners to cultivate plantations in provinces along the borders with Thailand, Laos and Vietnam. The governor of Tbong Khmum province, Prach Chan, told Khmer Times in March that residents in his province had frequently rented their land to Vietnamese nationals in the past.

 

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