Border Land to be Exchanged

Cambodia and Vietnam have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to exchange parcels of land in provinces along the border in both countries after Joint Border Committee meetings in Ho Chi Minh City in July and last Thursday. The Vietnamese Foreign Ministry released information on its website last Thursday, initially in Vietnamese only, detailing the agreements ironed out in the meetings, focusing specifically on the exchange of land between both countries.
 

Both Le Hoai Trung, the deputy minister of Foreign Affairs for Vietnam, and Va Kim Hong, chairman of the border committee for Cambodia, signed off on the agreement along with various ministers from both countries. Cambodian border committee officials attempted to downplay the news, saying the two sides had yet to actually discuss which plots of land would be transferred to Vietnamese control and vice versa. They only decided to allow a “group of experts” to study the situation and follow up with them.
 

Mr. Kim Hong did not respond to requests for comment yesterday, but told local media outlets that Cambodia and Vietnam have yet to transfer any land between each other. “We have nothing to exchange. We just talked about the exchange in principle, because we have had this principle for a long time since the MoU in 2011, which Prime Minister Hun Sen said at the National Assembly,” he said.

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