PM: Keep Old Border Posts

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It has been five months since the government updated the country on how far along they were with the demarcation process along the border with Vietnam. Yet Prime Minister Hun Sen has an entirely different focus: the border posts slowly being replaced.
 

In a directive sent out yesterday, the premier demanded that old border posts be preserved while the government demarcates the country’s borders with Vietnam. The posts, some of which were put in place before the 1870s, will be kept due to their historical significance, he said. In an edict dated September 20 and signed by the premier himself, he says the posts need to “be kept for the next generation to see those old border posts and compare them to this generation’s border posts, when Cambodia became a fully sovereign state and marked the borders with a neighboring country which the nation will be proud of in the future.”
 

Mr. Hun Sen specifically points to the Joint Border Committee in the letter, saying they have to work with every level of government to secure the old posts for posterity. “In case these old border posts broke off from their foundations and fell into areas not on Cambodian land, the Joint Border Committee must negotiate with the Vietnamese side and propose the posts be kept in Cambodia,” he wrote.

 

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