Vietnam speeds up the border marker installation ... to hide its encroachments into Cambodia?

Long An province plants 16 border markers

02/01/2010
VOV News (Hanoi)

The Mekong delta province of Long An has planted 16 border markers on the common border line between Vietnam and Cambodia over the last year.

The province shares 137.727 km of border line with 53 mark positions and 62 border markers with Cambodia’s Svay Rieng and Prey Veng provinces.

The border marker planting between the two countries is expected for completing by late 2012.

Kratie-Kampong Cham provinces: VN erected 7 landmarks along the border with Cambodia

Binh Phuoc: Seven landmarks erected on borderline with Cambodia

13/03/2008
VNA (Hanoi)

The southwestern province of Binh Phuoc has completed the planting of seven landmarks at five positions on the Vietnam-Cambodia borderline.

The two sides have defined the location for 13 landmarks at nine positions along their borderline.

Most of major works around the 69th landmark at the Hoa Lu International Border Gate in Loc Ninh District [KI-Media: next to Snuol in Kampong Cham province] have been finished while the construction work on the seven remaining landmarks is scheduled for completion in April this year.

Under an overall plan on Vietnam-Cambodia demarcation and landmark planting approved by the Prime Minister, Binh Phuoc Province is entrusted to plant a total of 26 landmarks at 18 positions in three districts of Phuoc Long, Loc Ninh and Bu Dop.

VN pushes for the speed up of border markers installation

Marker plantation with Cambodia prioritised in 2008

February 25, 2008
VNA

Vietnam affirmed to place the priority on the planting of border markers at border gates it shared with neighbouring Cambodia this year to facilitate economic exchange and travel of people in border areas.

The task was set at a meeting on the border demarcation and marker planting on the Vietnam-Cambodia border held in Ho Chi Minh City on February 25.

The meeting brought together representatives of concerned ministries and agencies and authorities of provinces sharing the border with Cambodia, including Kon Tum, Gia Lai, Dak Lak, Dak Nong, Binh Phuoc, Tay Ninh, Long An, Dong Thap, An Giang and Kien Giang.

Participants looked at how the demarcation and planting of landmark pillars progressed after the supplementary treaty to the Vietnam-Cambodia Border delimitation treaty was signed on October 10, 2005.

They defined tasks of the demarcation and landmark plantation work and measures to ratchet up the work in 2008.

VN pushing Cambodia to complete border markers installation ahead of 2008 election?

28/10/2007
Vietnam, Cambodia speed up landmark planting

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam and Cambodia have agreed on more than 50 positions on the map for planting landmarks between the two countries.

The two sides also agreed on the principles to define on-the-field landmark positions during the third technical session of the Vietnam-Cambodia Joint Committee for Land Border Demarcation and Landmark Planting held in Phnom Penh from October 22-27.

The principles will serve as legal and technical basis for border demarcation teams to follow.

The Vietnamese delegation to the meeting was led by Nguyen Hong Thao, Vice Chairman of the National Border Committee. The Cambodian delegation was headed by Huon Savang, Deputy Director of the Secretariat of the Ministers Council’s National Agency Responsible for Border Issues.

Source: VNA

The border of inequality moves on with new border markers to be installed in Mondulkiri

Vietnam and Cambodia plant more border landmark

August 21, 2007
VNA

Vietnam and Cambodia began work on planting a border marker between Vietnam’s Central Highlands Dak Nong province and Cambodia’s Mondulkiri province on August 21.

The landmark is the first to be erected between the two provinces on the 130 km borderline. The two provinces plan to plant 8 landmarks at the four posts of 48, 49, 50 and 55 by the end of the year.

According the Western Border Department of the Border Committee, 374 landmarks are to be planted on the 1,137-km border that straddles Vietnam and Cambodia.

Cambodia to place more border poles with Vietnam, Laos [-No independent obervers allowed to survey these border markers]

July 27, 2007

Cambodia will have more than 350 border demarcation poles in place along the Vietnamese border and 86 percent of the border with Laos will be marked by the end of 2008, according to Border Commission Director Var Kim Hong, local media said on Friday.

Speaking outside the new National Assembly building, the director claimed that Cambodia's plan to erect the poles along the 1,270-km-long border with neighboring Vietnam will cost approximately 16 million U.S. dollars, reported Cambodian-language newspaper the Kampuchea Thmey.

Kim Hong added that more than 100 border demarcation poles will be erected along the country's 540-km-long border with Laos.

"Everything about the border demarcation process is going smooth with Vietnam and Laos but we need some more time to do the work," he said.

Var Kim Hong presented the border demarcation plan at the National Assembly on Thursday, in response to the demand raised by some lawmakers who believed that the kingdom couldn't finish all the work by the end 0f 2008 as it planned.

Source: Xinhua

Illegal border with Vietnam installed in Kampot

June 16, 2007
Marker installed on Vietnam-Cambodia border

VNA (Hanoi)

A marker used to demarcate the border shared by Vietnam and Cambodia was officially installed at the Xa Xia international checkpoint that lays on southern Kien Giang province and Cambodia's Kampot province, on June 15.

It is the second marker installed on Vietnam's southern borderline with Cambodia. The first was erected at Moc Bai in southern Tay Ninh province.

Following the event, the two countries are to enter into negotiations on the planting of the third marker at the Giang Thanh checkpoint in Kien Giang's Kien Luong district as well as other minor markers on their border.

Work begins on unfair Vietnam-Cambodia border marker

May 25, 2007
Work begins on Vietnam-Cambodia border marker

VNA

The southern province of Tay Ninh began construction of its second border marker with a Cambodian locality on May 24.

The landmark is located at the Xa Mat-Trapeang Phlong international border gate area that straddles Vietnam’s southern Tay Ninh province and Cambodia’s Kompong Cham province.

Another marker at the Moc Bai-Ba Vet international border gate area between Tay Ninh province and Cambodia’s Svay Rieng province, was the first to be built and was inaugurated in September of last year.

The planting of border markers has come on the heels of the Vietnam-Cambodia Border Delimitation Treaty.

VN's borderless generosity: Vietnam agrees to pay for the installation of border markers ... and it will install them also

May 19, 2007
Cambodia, Vietnam plan to plant another 118 border markers

Cambodian and Vietnam have decided to start installing another batch of 118 border markers on May 24, local media reported on Saturday.

Both sides agreed recently to conduct a ceremony on May 24 for installing the markers along the border at Kompong Cham province, where the main crossing between the two countries is situated, Lon Lim Thay, Chief of Cabinet of the province, was quoted by Cambodian daily newspaper the Raksmey Kampuchea as saying.

"Both sides have also agreed on the architecture of the makers and the Vietnamese side will pay for the construction," he added.

In September 2006, both countries began the first phase of border marker installation at the Bavet-Mocbai international border checking point.

Cambodia and Vietnam plan to install altogether 353 border markers along their land border of 1,270 kilometers and the whole process is expected to end in December 2008.

Source: Xinhua