SRP Statement on the Visit of the President of Vietnam
The Sam Rainsy Party is pleased to note the visit of Nguyen Minh Triet, President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, to Phnom Penh, Cambodia. We hope that his conversations with the government of Cambodia will prove fruitful to the peoples of both nations.
We request that both parties honor the terms of the 1954 Geneva Convention and the 1991 Paris Peace Accords which stress principles of “sovereignty, territorial integrity and inviolability, neutrality and national unity of Cambodia.”
We hope that the Cambodian government will view the visit of President Nguyen as an opportunity to raise the following important issues:
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We request that both parties honor the terms of the 1954 Geneva Convention and the 1991 Paris Peace Accords which stress principles of “sovereignty, territorial integrity and inviolability, neutrality and national unity of Cambodia.”
We hope that the Cambodian government will view the visit of President Nguyen as an opportunity to raise the following important issues:
- Respecting religious rights inside of Vietnam, particularly in regard to the Khmer Kampuchea Krom monks;
- Ending human rights abuses against indigenous groups in Vietnam, including the Khmer Krom and Montagnard people;
- Engaging Cambodian villagers and farmers in open discussions about concessions of border lands;
- Rectifying the mismanagement of the Yali Dam on the Se San River, which has severely affected the livelihood of downstream Cambodians in Ratanakiri.
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