Cambodian PM to visit Myanmar next week
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen will lead a delegation to visit Myanmar from May 21 to 23, according to a statement from Cambodia's foreign affairs ministry here on Saturday.
Hun Sen will pay the official visit at the invitation of Acting Prime Minister Lieutenant-General Thein Sein, who is also First Secretary of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), said the statement from Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
The delegation includes Hor Nam Hong, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Cham Prasidh, Minister of Commerce, and other senior governmental officials, it added.
The two sides used to have cooperation on tourism, air services and visa exemption.
Myanmar and Cambodia are not only cooperating in the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as fellow members but also active in a five-country economic cooperation known as the Ayeyawaddy-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy ( ACMECS).
Source: Xinhua
Hun Sen will pay the official visit at the invitation of Acting Prime Minister Lieutenant-General Thein Sein, who is also First Secretary of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), said the statement from Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
The delegation includes Hor Nam Hong, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Cham Prasidh, Minister of Commerce, and other senior governmental officials, it added.
The two sides used to have cooperation on tourism, air services and visa exemption.
Myanmar and Cambodia are not only cooperating in the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as fellow members but also active in a five-country economic cooperation known as the Ayeyawaddy-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy ( ACMECS).
Source: Xinhua
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bounce the EAU (East Asia Union)
idea to our brother and let them
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THE TREATIES SIGNED BY HUN SEN/HENG SAMRIN/CHEA SIM WITH VIETNAM ARE ALL UNCONSTITUTIONAL
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Wednesday, 16 May 2007
THE TREATIES SIGNED BY HUN SEN/HENG SAMRIN/CHEA SIM WITH VIETNAM ARE ALL UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
CAMBODIA PEOPLE WOULD NEVER EVER RECOGNIZE THESE IGNOMINIOUS TREATIES.
BY BAPHUON
The pro-Vietnamese tried hard to discourage our effort to void the illegal and unequal treaties that HUN SEN/HENG SAMRIN/CHEA SIM had signed with Vietnam .
The Vietnamese insidious propaganda implied the idea of irreversibility. They said: it is irreversible; the 1979, 1983, 1985 and 2005 treaties became irremediably law of land. And those who attack these treaties would be considered as outlaws.
The pro-Vietnamese key argument was: all Cambodian institutions, and without exception, from the King to the National Assembly, the Senate, and the government, had all approved it, therefore, these 1979, 1983, 1985 and 2005 treaties between Vietnam - HUN SEN/HENG SAMRIN/CHEA SIM become laws.
Sean Péngsè, the President of Cambodia Border Committee in France and the world, during his meeting with Cambodian-American in the US last month had demonstrated the unconstitutionality of these ignominious treaties.
Péngsè said:
During the World War II, the French Vichy regime had signed also the treaty with Hitler ceding French land to the Third Reich. All Vichy institutions had also approved without exception that treaty, which was imposed by Hitler upon Marshal Pétain.
But when the Third Reich was defeated, the victorious De Gaulle declared that French-German treaty void and threw in prison all those who approved the cession of France land to the Third Reich. De Gaulle put in trial as traitor of France Nation those who approved the treaty. Some defendants were executed by a firing squad for crime of treason by De Gaulle.
For the same reason, Chili and Argentina didn’t recognize the treaties they had signed under the duress.
WE, Cambodian people, would never recognize all these ignominious 1978, 1983, 1985 and 2005 treaties signed by HUN SEN/HENG SAMRIN/ CHEA SIM with Vietnam , even though all institutions including the King, the government, the National Assembly, the Senate had approved it.
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CFC/CBC February 27, 2007
Written by Administrator
Wednesday, 28 February 2007
COMMUNIQUE
These last days the foreign newspapers publish news on the discovery of the nonrenewable natural wealth of which hydrocarbons in our maritime space.
And at the time of the 3 days visit as from February 27 2007de the delegation Vietnamese led by the President NGUYÊN Minh Triet, the Cambodia Border's Committee in France and in the world would consider it useful to point out here our Continental Shelf cut down by our neighbors
1-0 This agreement of July 7, 1982 referred as the Treaty of February 18, 1979, created a so-called area of “Historical Water Zone” consisting of about 10,000 sq. km put under common management, and it also recognized the annexation by the SRV of Koh Tral, Koh Krachak Sés (Poulo-Panjang) and one third (30,000 sq. km) of the territorial water of Cambodia.
However, the PRK boasted the full and complete sovereignty on these maritime zones and the continental shelf newly delimited. It even talked about the recognition by the Vietnamese party of our sovereignty on the Island Poulo Wai.
It should be noted that this island has always been under our management. Testimonies to this fact are:
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CFC/CBC February 27, 2007
Written by Administrator
Wednesday, 28 February 2007
COMMUNIQUE
These last days the foreign newspapers publish news on the discovery of the nonrenewable natural wealth of which hydrocarbons in our maritime space.
And at the time of the 3 days visit as from February 27 2007de the delegation Vietnamese led by the President NGUYÊN Minh Triet, the Cambodia Border's Committee in France and in the world would consider it useful to point out here our Continental Shelf cut down by our neighbors
1-0 This agreement of July 7, 1982 referred as the Treaty of February 18, 1979, created a so-called area of “Historical Water Zone” consisting of about 10,000 sq. km put under common management, and it also recognized the annexation by the SRV of Koh Tral, Koh Krachak Sés (Poulo-Panjang) and one third (30,000 sq. km) of the territorial water of Cambodia.
However, the PRK boasted the full and complete sovereignty on these maritime zones and the continental shelf newly delimited. It even talked about the recognition by the Vietnamese party of our sovereignty on the Island Poulo Wai.
It should be noted that this island has always been under our management. Testimonies to this fact are:
- Letter No. 1134-PCM/AP/X dated June 7, 1957 by HRH Samdech Norodom Sihanouk: As President of the Council of Ministers, he had ordered our Royal Khmer Navy to ensure the protection of the islands located in the Gulf of Siam, in particular the Island of Poulo Wai which we were managing;
- Letter No. 43/DG/DM/X dated July 20, 1972 from the Industrial, Mining Resources, and Maritime Fishing Minister who authorized the land occupation and management of this island (installation of a heliport and a harbor) to the French company “Société Française de Pétrole ELF-ERAP” (ELF-ERAP) of Cambodia. This company installed “geodetic and geographic markers” indicating that this island belongs to Cambodia prior to its first drilling operation 50 km to the south of the island in 1972.
Please refer to the attached photograph taken on August 19, 1972 during the visit of the ELF-ERAP [oil] platform on the Island of Poulo Wai by the [Khmer] Delegation headed by Mr. Chhan Sokhum, Minister of Industry, Mr. Heng Long, Director of the Ministry of Industry, Mr. Sean Pengse, Director of the Office of Mines, Geology, and Oil of the Ministry of Industry. The delegation traveled on a Royal Khmer Navy ship under the direction of a Khmer Royal Navy Commander, and was received by Mr. Jean-Claude Lot, Resident Director of ELF-ERAP in Cambodia.
1.1 Agreement and Treaty of July 20, 1983
The new agreement on the “Border Status”, and the new treaty on the “Principle of Resolution on Border Issues” were concluded and regulated the creation and the delimitation of border zones, the inhabitants life, the trade, and the free border crossing, all to the detriment of Cambodia.
1.2 Treaty of December 27, 1985
A new Treaty was concluded between the two parties in order to officially recognize the new delimitation of the national borders between the two countries without taking into consideration past repeated recognitions by the North and South Vietnamese governments on the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of Cambodia.
2.0 REPERCUSSIONS OF THE TREATIES
Among the Agreements and Treaties referred to above, the SRV used as basis the Agreement on “Historical Water” concluded on July 7, 1982 to provide two Declarations with the General Assembly of the UN and concluded an Agreement with Thailand.
2.1 UN declarations by Vietnam
The SRV presented to the UN two Declarations, one dated November 12, 1982 and the other dated June 5, 1984 requesting that all the member states respect the new baselines of the maritime territory and the new national airspace of Vietnam that it has recently acquired as part of the aforesaid Agreement.
If the SRV was sincere and if it did not gain any new territories out of these Treaties and Agreements, it would not need to present these new Declarations to the General Assembly of the UN.
Among third party countries in the region, the Republic of Singapore protested these Declarations that it described as opposite to the rules of international law.
At that time, HRH Samdech Norodom Sihanouk, President of the Coalition Government, had incessantly declared null and void these Agreements and Treaties concluded between the SRV and the PRK.
2.2 Bilateral agreement between the SRV and Thailand
Furthermore, under the pretext of the 1982 Agreement, the SRV concluded with Thailand on August 11, 1997 a Bilateral Agreement to fix the new respective maritime zones between these two countries at the detriment of Cambodia. This resulted in another loss of a third (30,000 sq. km) of Cambodia’s maritime area.
Mr. HUN SEN himself protested against this Vietnamese-Thai Treaty on May 7, 1998 during his official visit to Thailand, however, Thailand referred him to Vietnam which used the 1982 Agreement as a basis to conclude the negotiations with Thailand.
3.0 RESPONSIBILITY OF KHMER AUTORITIES FACED WITH THESE ISSUES
These illegal treaties should have been cancelled since the first government in 1993 in accordance with the Paris Peace Agreements on Cambodia dated October 23, 1991, and with the 1993 Constitution of Cambodia of 1993 (Article 55).
To the surprise of everyone concerned, these treaties were further recognized by the Joint Khmer-Vietnamese Committee on March 27, 1999, and were approved by the coalition government on December 22, 2000 to the contrary of the Constitution of Cambodia (Article 52). This constitutes, without doubt, a deliberated act of the government. Even in his reply dated July 31, 2000 to a letter from the King, Mr. Hun Sen put forth the following incomprehensible argument:
“...Taking into consideration the current situation and the two points stated above, it is not suitable for the government to openly and officially declare today the nullity of these treaties and agreements with Vietnam in order to allow the Joint Khmer-Vietnamese Committee to pursue difficult negotiations until obtaining satisfactory final results ".
Mr. Sok An, during his speech in front of the National Assembly in 2002, has also put forth the same argument.
His Majesty the King categorically refused to recognize these treaties and agreements at the pressing request of the delegation of the Communist Party of Vietnam that visited him on December 27, 2003.
Indeed, the Royal Government which has the duty of defending the Independence, Sovereignty, and the Territorial Integrity (Article 52 of the Constitution), must take all necessary actions to keep intact our Unity in order to preserve the primordial interests of the Khmer Nation.
The Government must constantly listen to the complaints by the population and must immediately render justice on the spot the litigations that occur.
Soldiers, ex-soldiers, the population including women deplore and sound the alarm of despair against the injustices imposed upon them by neighboring countries, and they ask the head of the government, the President of the National Assembly, and even the heads of political parties to help them find their peace, to recover their lands, to preserve our borders which are continuously being nibbled away. Illegal annexation or appropriation of our lands and even of our temples near the borders are occurring on a daily basis.
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It is also an issue of life and death that concerns us in particular. A solution is absolutely necessary. Foreign powers cannot do anything for us. It is for us to become aware of these issues. We cannot allow this act to last perpetually because it could lead to our complete loss of territory and identity.
For the Cambodia’s Border Committee in France and Worldwide,
Paris, February 27, 2007
Sean Pengse
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 28 February 2007 )
yes, Some Arch Hun Penny we're concerned about your health after you've gone.No one care us(youn slave)any more.
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