The Senate Ratifies The Supplemental Border Treaty
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- Date: 25 Nov 2005 21:47:16 -0800
The Senate Ratifies The Supplemental Border Treaty
Sakada Chun
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
25/11/2005
National Assembly Building (Photo by Khemara)
The alliance coalition ruling parties' senate unanimously Friday
ratifies the supplemental border treaty, and the opposition Sam Rainsy
party (SRP) senators walked out of the National Assembly's meeting to
protest this decision.
Forty nine CPP and FUNCINPEC senators of the 50 senators raised their
hands to vote for it, and SRP senators who opposed this decision walked
out before the ratification took place.
Deputy Prime Minister and senior Minister in charge of the Office of
the Council of Ministers, Sok An, told reporters that the Supplemental
border treaty has been proceeded legally from the National Assembly to
the Senate, then the government and now to the King.
He said that after the King's signature, Cambodia and Vietnam sides
will have a ceremony of exchanging ratification statute and this treaty
will go into effect.
He said at the Senate hearing that this treaty is necessary to protect
the Cambodian territorial sovereignty and that it does not violate the
1993 constitution, and that it is in accordance with former King
Sihanouk's 1969 map which is kept at the U.N.
SRP acting president Kong Korm said that this treaty is not clear and
does not talk about Cambodia's sovereignty.
The Center for Society Development's director Ms. Chea Vannath said
that the King will have to consider every angle before signing it.
This controversial treaty which Prime Minister Hun Sen signed with
Vietnam at the beginning of October, resulted in the arrests of two
border activists and warrant arrests of several others including Prince
Sisowath Thomico, the former King's cousin.
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