Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Lawmakers in border claim fracas

Heng Xamrin meeting his Viet master

Sam Rainsy Party parliamentarians visit a border marker along the Vietnamese border in Kampong Cham earlier this month. (Photo by: Heng Chivoan)
Tuesday, 28 December 2010
Vong Sokheng
The Phnom Penh Post

National Assembly president Heng Samrin slammed the opposition Sam Rainsy Party on Tuesday for its recent claims that Cambodia has ceded land to Vietnam by allowing the misplacement of border demarcation posts.

The rebuke came two weeks after a delegation of opposition SRP members claimed that Vietnamese border police crossed onto Cambodian land to prevent them from visiting border demarcation post 103, in Kampong Cham province’s Memot district on December 13.

The delegation also alleged that according to its maps and claims from local residents, 14 villages in Memot’s Da, Muol and Ruong communes had been ceded to Vietnam following the planting of border posts 108 and 109.

Speaking during a session at the National Assembly on Tuesday, Heng Samrin, who is also an honorary president of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party, said the SRP had expressed their concerns about the issue in an “inappropriate manner”.
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