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A spokesperson for the Vietnam Foreign Ministry on October 30 strongly condemned Sam Rainsy – President of Cambodia’s Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) – for uprooting demarcation poles on Vietnam-Cambodia borders and making slanderous allegations against Vietnam.
On October 25, 2009, Sam Rainsy visited a border demarcation site between Vietnam’s Long An province and Cambodia’s Svay Rieng province, uprooting six demarcation poles at location 185 and bringing them back to Phnom Penh. He even accused Vietnam of “taking Cambodia’s land through border demarcation”.
Spokesperson Nguyen Phuong Nga said that currently Vietnam and Cambodia are speeding up border demarcation and landmark planting. Protecting landmarks and demarcation poles is the common task of the governments and people of the two countries, in line with bilateral agreements and international law.
Ms Nga described Sam Rainsy’s act as perverse, saying it violated the laws of both Vietnam and Cambodia as well as treaties and agreements reached between the two countries, and obstructed the process of border demarcation. She said Sam Rainsy’s slanderous allegations were ill-informed and irresponsible and that they aimed to incite hatred and undermine the fine relationship between Vietnam and Cambodia.
She asked the Cambodian Government to take necessary measures against such a destructive act, creating favourable conditions for conducting border demarcation and landmark planting between Vietnam and Cambodia on schedule in the interest of the two nations.
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