Var Kimhong: The border with Laos will be fully demarcated by the end of June. (Photo: KAY KIMSONG)Friday, 30 May 2008
Written by Kay Kimsong
The Phnom Penh Post
Cambodia expects to finish demarcating its border with Laos in June and its boundary with Vietnam on schedule by 2012, but there is no timeframe for concluding negotiations with Thailand, a senior government official said.
Var Kimhong, the chairman of the Government Border Committee, told reporters on May 17 the Cambodia-Laos border committee had inspected 86 percent of the markers along the 540-kilometer border and only a few issues remained to be finalized.
A 14-member Laotian delegation will be in Phnom Penh from June 3 to 5 for talks on the border, said a senior official at the Laotian embassy, Kengchai Sixanonh.
“The Cambodia-Laos joint border committee has been working very smoothly and I think the relationship will get better in the future,” Kengchai said.
Kimhong meanwhile said work on demarcating the border with Vietnam had been accelerated under an additional treaty signed with Hanoi in 2005.
He said the treaty increased from one to five the number of groups working on delineating the 1,270km border, which will have more than 350 granite markers.
However, Kimhong said differences with Bangkok over the 805km border with Thailand remained a problem, and he referred to a reported incursion by armed Thai paramilitary rangers on May 16 during which some houses were damaged at Choam Sa Ngam, in Anlong Veng district of Oddar Meanchey province.
Kimhong said he was “surprised” by the incursion because negotiations had been taking place with Bangkok on opening a border crossing at Choam Sa Ngam linking Oddar Meanchey with Thailand’s Si Sa Ket province.
The governor of Anlong Veng district, Yin Phanna, said on May 19 the situation had “cooled down” after talks earlier that day between Cambodian officials, including members of the provincial border commission, and Thai army officers.
“Negotiations were the only way to solve the issue,” Phanna said, adding that no Cambodian troops were deployed in the area where the incursion took place.
Despite occasional incidents along the border with Thailand, Kimhong said Cambodia regarded the bilateral relationship as one of “eternal friendship.”
“We are like brothers or friends who live near each other ... we don’t need to deploy any troops,” Kimhong said.
The Cambodia-Thailand Joint Border Commission began its demarcation work in 2006 – three years after the two countries signed a memorandum of understanding to resolve border issues – and has focused its efforts on finding the 73 markers installed by a French-Siamese commission.
“The search for border markers has no schedule or timeframe for completing the task; what is most important is that an agreement can be reached,” Kimhong said.
Asked about the main obstacles to demarcating the Cambodia-Thai border, Kimhong said the legacies of colonialism and years of conflict meant that it was not a “normal” border.
Var Kimhong, the chairman of the Government Border Committee, told reporters on May 17 the Cambodia-Laos border committee had inspected 86 percent of the markers along the 540-kilometer border and only a few issues remained to be finalized.
A 14-member Laotian delegation will be in Phnom Penh from June 3 to 5 for talks on the border, said a senior official at the Laotian embassy, Kengchai Sixanonh.
“The Cambodia-Laos joint border committee has been working very smoothly and I think the relationship will get better in the future,” Kengchai said.
Kimhong meanwhile said work on demarcating the border with Vietnam had been accelerated under an additional treaty signed with Hanoi in 2005.
He said the treaty increased from one to five the number of groups working on delineating the 1,270km border, which will have more than 350 granite markers.
However, Kimhong said differences with Bangkok over the 805km border with Thailand remained a problem, and he referred to a reported incursion by armed Thai paramilitary rangers on May 16 during which some houses were damaged at Choam Sa Ngam, in Anlong Veng district of Oddar Meanchey province.
Kimhong said he was “surprised” by the incursion because negotiations had been taking place with Bangkok on opening a border crossing at Choam Sa Ngam linking Oddar Meanchey with Thailand’s Si Sa Ket province.
The governor of Anlong Veng district, Yin Phanna, said on May 19 the situation had “cooled down” after talks earlier that day between Cambodian officials, including members of the provincial border commission, and Thai army officers.
“Negotiations were the only way to solve the issue,” Phanna said, adding that no Cambodian troops were deployed in the area where the incursion took place.
Despite occasional incidents along the border with Thailand, Kimhong said Cambodia regarded the bilateral relationship as one of “eternal friendship.”
“We are like brothers or friends who live near each other ... we don’t need to deploy any troops,” Kimhong said.
The Cambodia-Thailand Joint Border Commission began its demarcation work in 2006 – three years after the two countries signed a memorandum of understanding to resolve border issues – and has focused its efforts on finding the 73 markers installed by a French-Siamese commission.
“The search for border markers has no schedule or timeframe for completing the task; what is most important is that an agreement can be reached,” Kimhong said.
Asked about the main obstacles to demarcating the Cambodia-Thai border, Kimhong said the legacies of colonialism and years of conflict meant that it was not a “normal” border.
21 comments:
Excellent, one down, two to go.
AH SVA KIMHONG has a face of a sore loser! Now he even call the Thaicong as "brothers or friends" for violating Cambodia sovereignty!
The fact that the stupid Cambodian government didn't deploy their fucken troop to protect Cambodian civilians show that the stupid Cambodian government is playing death and asking for more trouble in the future which mean the Thaicong government can deploy more troop in the future to attack Cambodian civilian living along the border without worrying about retaliation from the stupid Cambodian government!
What can I say the stupid Cambodian officials can only talk, talk, and more talk then sit their fucken hands and do shit! I feel pity for dirt poor Cambodian people who are working hard day and night to make Cambodia into a great country because the stupid Cambodian government can't even offer them a simple protection from the Thaicong army thugs! Maybe it is about time that dirt poor Cambodian people need to turn to mafia or organize criminal element to protect them from the Thaicong army thugs!
Hope he will pay his life for Cambodia, and he will reclaim Koh Tral back from Vietnam, even his boss [PM Hun Sen] will prepare a coffin for him.
Very sensitive topic
It's OK for the frontier demarcation with Loas, but it's not OK for the frontier demarcation with Vietnam because we will some land to Vietnam.
how can brothers or friends always make so many trublesome problems to each other?
As long as Cambodia is weak, you will always have border problems with the Yourn and the Siam.
=> Solution:
Become strong economically and militarily and these guys will beg you to solve border issues quickly.
If you're corrupt to the bone, well just keep enduring all shit.
Yes, we need to go to border negotiation with strenght. We cannot be weak military and economically.
I agree with 2:46. We need to deploy our troops ON OUR side of the border to protect our people against threat & murders from Thai black clad thugs or troops, and to deter further incursion into our territory. We can even be more agreesive by incursion into their own lands but we do not want to make a mistake like the Khmer Rouge did in 1970's. We have the right to be ON OUR SIDE of the border, and USE FORCE against illegal entry.
What's up with ah shva kim hoang?
To 11:55PM
If I understand correctly the Khmer Rouge never made any mistake in deterring the Vietcong from invading Cambodia because the Vietcong like the Thaicong are conducting all kinds of skirmish along Cambodian border to harass Cambodian civilian living along the border to test Cambodian military strength! And what the Khmer Rouge did was to invite the Vietcong into Cambodia for long hard protected guerilla warfare so that the Vietcong would never forget like what they did to the American soldiers during the Vietname war!
Now you know why the Vietcong withdrew their troop in 1989 after occupied Cambodia for 10 years! If the Thaicong want a repeat of the Vietcong bad experience and let them come because bullets and bombs will welcome them and not to mention million of landmines in the ground!
Cambodia can no longer pretend to be good neighbor to the Thaicong and the Vietcong if they continue to adopt aggressive behavior toward Cambodia which will only lead to more instability!
If Cambodian people can't enjoy what they have and they have the right to destroy it and no Thaicong and Vietcong will take it from Cambodian people!
Var kimhong play the trick about the border ,khmer thai in recently and the next coming is Yuon khmer border ,they will draw a new map of cambodia replace old map at united nation.
Fuck the UN; we know how to settle our own border, and so far we're doing it great.
PREAH BAAT THAMEIK IS MOVING WESTWARD, HE HAD A PEACE MISSION IN MIND. HE IS A HOLLY MAN BUT NOT GOD NOR ANGEL, HIS ENLIGHTMENT ADEQUATLY SCOPS IN ALL THE HUMEN HABITHAT NATIONS IN THE REGION WISELY.
DON'T WORRY BE HAPPY; STAY TOGETHER BE A STRONG KHMER NATION AND HELP ONE ANOTHERS THEN WILL GET BLESS FROM HIM, AND LORD BUDHA FOREVER!!!!....
Sva Kin Hong.
You know? Satt Sva.
He worked under the-three-Sva-Sva Sen,Sva Sim,and Sva Rin-who are under yuon.
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Sva is much better than Zimbabwean.
Nope you fucking Viet/Yuon-born parasite @9:25 AM that pretend to be Khmer thinking that Yuon/Viet is Khmer master and Khmer is Viet/Yuon slave must be castrated and have your dick fed to the Viet cancerous black dog!
Viet/Yuon go home!
You viet must learn by heart the universal language by now:
"The world sees and knows you Viet true color already"!
Hey, this is Yuon's website. If you are not pro-yuon, scram?
Nope...You fuck off you fucking YUON/Viet parasite!!!
"The world sees and knows the true color of the Viet/Yuon already"
You Viet parasite presence on KI-Media will hurt the Viet plunderers than it hurts Cambodia and the Cambodian people....
Viet Go home!!!
I have to wonder if the Thaicong send in their troop to burn down AH HUN SEN's house and will AH HUN SEN deploy his troop to protect his house? And of course there is no doubt in my mind that the AH HUN SEN will deploy his troop to protect his house! But the fact is Cambodian people have the same feeling like AH HUN SEN and why can AH HUN SEN understand that and start deploying Cambodian troop to protect Cambodian people and their properties along the Cambodian border against the Thaicong army aggression?
AH HUN SEN can no longer continue to preach peace with the Thaicong and sitting on his hand and doing nothing to help Cambodian people!
Life is a terrible thing to waste. It's better to just get another house.
To 12:08PM
Good! That another house be your fucken house with all your children and your valuable personal belonging in burn and let them all burn to hell by the Thaicong naked aggression!
Good logic mother fucker and you deserve it! Burn down your fucken house and kill all your children by the enemy is a very good thing!
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