Border Intrusion: Ministry Complains to Vietnam

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Cambodia’s foreign ministry sent yet another diplomatic note to Vietnam’s foreign ministry last week, 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 came after officials from the Vietnamese government started to construct buildings and a border checkpoint in O’Yadav district in Rattanakiri province last week.
 

The site where construction is being done 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 the 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 had 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 to determine exactly where the border is.  

 

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