Senior Minister Var Kimhong Attends the Fourth Meeting of Cambodia-Vietnam Joint Border Commission in Vietnam

In the meeting, Senior Minister Var Kimhong, based on an instruction given by Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen, is expected to speed up the plantings of remaining border pillars.

Cambodia and Vietnam have agreed to plant 375 border pillars along the border of around 1,270 kilometers long between the two countries. Up to December 2009, both nations agreed to plant 160 border pillars (43%), 111 of which had already planted and 49 others were being planted including the plantings of border pillars in seven international border checkpoints of Bavet, Trapaing Sre, Trapaing Phlong, Lok-Prek Chak, Ka-am Samnor, Koh Rokar and Bantey Chakrey, along with border pillar No.0 in the Rattanakiri province, a point where the border lines of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam intersect.

All the plantings of border poles between Cambodia and Vietnam are expected be completed by 2010, as a speech of Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen saying, “I want people at the border to become the rich, and live without fear, as well as the border area, once being a battlefield, to turn into the development area./.(AKP)

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Senior Minister Var Kimhong Attends the Fourth Meeting of Cambodia-Vietnam Joint Border Commission in Vietnam