Meas Sokchea
The Phnom Penh Post
THESE ANSWERS WE CANNOT ACCEPT. HE DID NOT ANSWER THE QUESTIONS FULLY.LAWMAKERS from the opposition Sam Rainsy Party say government officials dodged questions about the border-demarcation process, as the National Assembly gathered for a special session to discuss the issue on Thursday.
Var Kimhong, senior minister in charge of border affairs, spoke for about two hours in parliament in a bid to clarify Cambodia’s stance on its eastern border with Vietnam, following opposition concerns of Vietnamese encroachments along the frontier.
But opposition officials said Var Kimhong did little to clarify the situation on the country’s border with its neighbour.
“These answers we cannot accept. He did not answer the questions fully,” said SRP lawmaker Son Chhay after the session.
He said that despite the convening of a session to explain the status at the border – the second such meeting held by the National Assembly – 10 of his questions about alleged Vietnamese encroachments remained unaddressed.
“We want to ask the names of those officials who went to plant the border demarcation poles. Once [Var Kimhong] said that [demarcation was done] based on 1985 maps; once he said it was based on a 1964 map. This is what we as people’s representatives want to know,” Son Chhay said.
Opposition concerns about the border stem from an October 25 incident in which SRP President Sam Rainsy helped villagers uproot six wooden border markers in Svay Rieng province’s Chantrea district.
During the session, Son Chhay accused the Cambodian government of planting border markers in a non-transparent manner – concerns that were slapped down by Assembly President Heng Samrin, who said the SRP official did not have the right to speak.
Var Kimhong answered that he had already answered the concerns at length in a November 25 letter to Son Chhay.
“If Excellency has such a short memory, how will Excellency work on border issues?” he said.
Var Kimhong told the Assembly that Cambodia and Vietnam planned to plant 375 border markers along the two countries’ 1,270-kilometre shared border, a process that began in 2006 and is set to be finished by 2012.
Some 140 markers have been placed so far, he added, in accordance with a border treaty signed with Vietnam in 2005.
8 comments:
In the name of Khmers ah Sva Kim hong will be listed as one of the traitor when his story rewritten.
forget the talks. It's a waste of time. Show us the border maps in DETAILS!!! A map is the only hard evidence to dispute. If no one see's the map both sides are arguing over nonsenses.
I heard People khmer from Svay Rieng,asked you Ah Sva kimhong that wich school were you coming from.
Hahaha,khmer know how to use mobile phone.
COWARDS! COWARDS! COWARDS! INCOMPETENCE! These useless, destructive, selfish, uneducated people need to move over for Sam Rainsy and other more courageous and competent people to lead Cambodia!
CHOY OEUY,YO KHMERS DON'T BLAME SVA KIM HONG A LONE...YO KHMERS DON'T KNOW SHIT...YOR KING, MY VIETNAMESE BLOOD AND HE DIDN'T SAY ANY THING...WHY YO PEOPLE TALK TOO MUCH AND OVER AND OVER...
OH,TUY FORGOT TO SAY SANG KOU THO SOMDACH 3 NAK,SOMDACH HENG SOMRIN,SOMDACH CHEA SIM AND SOMDACH HUN SEN;TUY SANG YOU SOMDACH VERY MUCH...
KHMER67,USA
Many if not all ministers in the current government got their positions through BRIBES. How can you expect them to be able to answer the questions.
Believe in Naga and he will punish them and their associates very SOON.
Var Kim Hong must serve the interest for Khmer not for Vietnam. He's unfit to be our foreign minister; he should resign.
Vanak
Var Kimhong is Yuon citizen working in Khmer National Assemblly. He does every thing in his power for Yuon not Khmer, we all know that. The root of the problem that we should dig up, is Ah Hun Sen who his real big brother is ah Yuon Vietnam. Hun Sen need to be killed first than every thing else is easier later on.
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