Hun Sen To Explain Vietnam Border Agreement To Lawmakers

07 August 2012
Reporters, VOA Khmer

Lao Monghay, an independent political analyst, said Hun Sen’s appearance at the National Assembly will not likely include the type of questioning expected of a system of checks and balances, but will more likely be a one-way speech.

PHNOM PENH, WASHINGTON DC - Prime Minister Hun Sen says he will accept an invitation from the National Assembly to appear before lawmakers and explain a border agreement between Cambodia and Vietnam.

The Assembly will hold a session on Thursday to discuss the agreement, which opposition officials say ceded Cambodian land to Vietnam.

Ruling party lawmaker Cheam Yiep said Hun Sen will take about four hours in the session to detail the agreements.

Yim Sovann, a spokesman for the opposition Sam Rainsy Party, said he doubted his lawmakers would be permitted to ask questions in the session. “Villagers need the facts, so we have the right to ask,” he said.

Sean Pengse, a France-based expert on the border’s history, said he would want the premier to explain the government’s failure to cancel illegal treaties counter to the Paris Peace Accords; the loss of maritime borders and agreements allowing Vietnamese to easily immigrate to Cambodia.

Illegal border treaties with Vietnam: 1982, 1983, 1985 and 2005

Dear Readers,

In view of border demarcation discussion at the NatAss tomorrow, we are posting below a document published by Phnom Penh which includes full text of the 1982, 1983, 1985 and 2005 "illegal" border treaties with Vietnam.

KI-Media team





https://www.box.com/s/ce5c60974d0a155060a2

Viet's Quest for influence and its implication for the management of border disputes with Cambodia and Laos by Vu Le Thai Hoang

KI-Media Note: Dear Readers,

Near the eve of the signing of the Supplemental border treaty with Vietnam and the anniversary of the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements on Cambodia, we are posting following article written by a Vietnamese author which clearly emphasizes Hun Xen's involvement in SECURING the 1985 border treaty imposed by Vietnam during its occupation on Cambodia.

We would like to thank Mr. Bora Touch for pointing this document.

We urge all of you to read this document as it sheds important light on the border dispute with Vietnam, as well as the Master-Client relationship between Hanoi and the Hun Xen regime.

Knowledge is Power!

May Power be with You!

Abstract

Through providing a historical overview of border disputes between Vietnam and neighbouring Laos and Cambodia in Indochina, the article aims to evaluate the success gained by Vietnam in its efforts to secure the western and southwestern land border and thus maintain a peaceful external environment for the domestic reform. Since the Cambodian endgame, Vietnam has sought to improve political relations with all neighbours (including China) and, on that basis, consistently applied fundamental principles of international law while adopting the region’s common practice in order to resolve border issues. In return, the Communist leadership in Laos and the Hun Sen regime in Cambodia have been eager to sustain the Cold War border treaty system with Vietnam in order to stabilize the border, address cross-border non-traditional security issues, and ensure Vietnam’s assistance for economic development and regime security. In addition, Vietnam’s border disputes with Cambodia prove harder to deal with because the latter’s domestic power struggle has turned the issue into a political card played by opposition parties in their election campaigns.

(Manuscript received October 1, 2006; accepted for publication December 1, 2006)

Keywords: New Influence, Border Management, Border Disputes, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam

The Author

Vu Le Thai Hoang was born in August 1975, awarded with the M.Sc. in Strategic Studies by the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies (now the S.Rajaratnam School of International Studies), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He worked as a lecturer and research fellow at the Institute for International Relations, Hanoi, Vietnam. Presently, he is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Leeds, United Kingdom, with fields of interest in Vietnam’s foreign policy and Southeast Asia’s political and security affairs. E-Mail: easlthv@leeds.ac.uk or vulethaihoang@gmail.com.

Click here to read this paper (33 pages, PDF)

The betrayal started with the illegal border treaties with Vietnam: Op-Ed by Angkor Borey News

Click on the article in Khmer to zoom in

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.