PHNOM PENH, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian
Prime Minister Hun Sen will address the National Assembly (NA) on border issues
with Vietnam next Thursday, according to a NA’s press release on Saturday.
The press release said that the National
Assembly would hold its 8th plenary session of the 4th legislature on Aug. 9
under the presidency of Heng Samrin, NA’s president. One of the agendas in the
upcoming session is “a verbal clarification to the NA on border demarcation
tasks between Cambodia and Vietnam”.
The clarification is made at the request of
Sam Rainsy Party, the country's major opposition party.
Hun Sen said on Wednesday that he would need
4 hours straight to explain to the parliament on the issues.
The premier's plan to appear at the National
Assembly was unveiled after the opposition party had subsequently accused the
current government of national betrayal for ceding land to Vietnam.
"It is serious and unacceptable that
they call us 'traitors', so I need to explain these issues," he told a
graduation ceremony of more than 2,600 students at the Royal University of Law
and Economics on Wednesday.
He said his upcoming remarks will be
televised live in all local TVs if possible.
Cambodia
shares a 1,270-km border with Vietnam to the east. To date, about 80 percent of
the border demarcation has been completed and the two countries have vowed to
fully complete it by the end of this year.
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