Border demarcation between Cambodia, Vietnam to be completed by 2012
March 04, 2008
Cambodia and Vietnam have affirmed their determination to speed up the
demarcation of the land border between the two nations, local media
re****ted Tuesday.
The work will be completed by 2012, the Mekong Times newspaper said,
citing Var Kim Hong, Cambodian Senior Minister in charge of border
affairs and Chairman of the Cambodian-Vietnam Joint Border
Commission.
The contentious Cambodia-Vietnam border demarcation began in 2005 and
was supposed to be finished in 2007, the newspaper said.
"We planned to finish the border demarcation between Cambodia and
Vietnam at the end of last year, but due to technical issues, such as
unclear maps made during French colonial times and flooding, so far
the project is about 30 percent completed," Var Kim Hong said, adding
that about 30 of the total 340 markers have been installed.
Both sides agreed to identify all remaining positions on the map and
install the most im****tant border markers by the end of the year, Var
Kim Hong said.
Source:Xinhua
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