Hun Sen asks Western leaders to help resolve Cambodia’s border disputes
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen sent letters to the leaders of the three western countries on 15 July asking to borrow a decades-old map to try to settle disputes over alleged territorial encroachment by Vietnam.
The Cambodian leader sent letters to U.S. President Barack Obama, French President Francois Hollande and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron to ask for their “cooperation and assistance on an important issue about territory integrity of the Kingdom of Cambodia” by lending him the 1964 map so it could be compared to Southeast Asia nation’s official map.
Besides copies of the map of mainland Southeast Asia prepared by former colonial ruler France, Hun Sen asked the three western leaders to provide a group of experts to verify the map that is being used by Cambodia and Vietnam to demarcate the border.
