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.