PHNOM PENH (Cambodia Herald) - Prime Minister Hun Sen told the National Assembly Thursday that the exchange of territories between Cambodia and Vietnam would facilitate people's ties to the land.
He said Cambodia had 916.7 hectares of Vietnamese territory while Vietnam had 2,160.6 hectares of Cambodian territory.
If this is acknowledged by both countries, Hun Sen said that Vietnam would return 1,234.9 hectares of land to Cambodia.
He noted that territory had already been exchanged by China and Vietnam, France and Belgium, Belgium and the Netherlands and the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
