Hun Sen to clear out his view on the country’s border issue today

Cambodia News

Phnom Penh (9 August, 2012): Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen will speak out for the whole morning today at the National Assembly about the country’s border issue, especially with Vietnam.

The premier’s speaking out is made after the opposition Sam Rainsy Party’s parliamentarians urged the National Assembly President to call him to speak about the issue.

Yesterday, the premier said he is just a victim of the border problems with neighboring countries – Vietnam, Thailand and Laos – and that those who have criticised him on the loss of the country’s land and sea areas to foreign countries are aiming to criticise former King Norodom Sihanouk who left such border problem.

The premier said he is in the next generation who has just solved the problems peacefully.

In 2008, the Phnom Penh municipal court sentenced Sam Rainsy, the President of Sam Rainsy Party who is now living in exile in Paris, for years after he had pulled out several sticks which temporarily demarcated the Cambodian-Vietnamese border where Sam Rainsy said the sticks were in the Cambodian soil.