Cambodia will have more than 350 border demarcation poles in place along the Vietnamese border and 86 percent of the border with Laos will be marked by the end of 2008, according to Border Commission Director Var Kim Hong, local media said on Friday.
Speaking outside the new National Assembly building, the director claimed that Cambodia's plan to erect the poles along the 1,270-km-long border with neighboring Vietnam will cost approximately 16 million U.S. dollars, reported Cambodian-language newspaper the Kampuchea Thmey.
Kim Hong added that more than 100 border demarcation poles will be erected along the country's 540-km-long border with Laos.
"Everything about the border demarcation process is going smooth with Vietnam and Laos but we need some more time to do the work," he said.
Var Kim Hong presented the border demarcation plan at the National Assembly on Thursday, in response to the demand raised by some lawmakers who believed that the kingdom couldn't finish all the work by the end 0f 2008 as it planned.
Source: Xinhua
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