France to lend maps to Cambodia amid dispute over Vietnam border
Former colonial ruler France has agreed to lend a set of maps to Cambodia following a request from Prime Minister Hun Sen and amid a dispute over the demarcation of the Southeast Asian nation’s border with neighboring Vietnam, officials said on 1 September.
France will hand over the maps—produced by its National Geographic Institute prior to Cambodian independence in 1953—in a ceremony on 3 September, chairman of Cambodia’s border committee Var Kimhong told a press conference in Phnom Penh, citing a letter from French President François Hollande.
