Cambodia details border violations

Cambodia details border violations

PHNOM PENH (Reuters): Cambodia's cointerior ministers have for the first time documented evidence of territorial encroachments into Cambodia by neighboring Thailand and Vietnam.

In two letters sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and obtained by Reuters on Tuesday, the ministers detailed several cases of boundary violations by both countries.

"We want to protect our territory, but we don't want to use violence against our neighbors", interior ministry spokesman Gen. Khieu Sopheak said.

The letters accuse Vietnam of violating Cambodian territory in the provinces of Takeo and Prey Veng, in the country's south and southeast, in late May and June this year. The statement said they received information from the provincial authorities that boundary stakes had been moved inside Cambodia.

In a second letter, the Thai authorities are accused of moving boundary delineation markers in Banteay Meanchey and Pursat provinces in northwestern Cambodia.