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Work
begins on road to link Viet Nam, Cambodia
(05-02-2007)
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| Deputy Prime Minister
Trong (left) and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen attend
yesterday’s groundbreaking ceremony. — VNA/VNS Photo Nguyen Dan |
RATTANAKIRI, CAMBODIA —
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Truong
Vinh Trong attended a groundbreaking ceremony yesterday on a project to upgrade
Cambodia’s Highway 78 linking with the Vietnamese border.
The 70km highway runs from
Ban Lung town in Cambodia’s Rattanakiri Province to Le Thanh bordergate in the
Viet Nam Central Highlands province of Gia Lai. The highway passes through the
towns of Bokeo and Oyadav in Cambodia.
The 9m-wide highway will
be built at a cost of US$25.8 million to be paid from Viet Nam’s preferential
credit investment.
The project, expected to
be completed in 30 months, is being jointly undertaken by Viet Nam’s Civil
Engineering Construction Corporation No 1, the Truong Son Building Corporation,
and Cambodia’s Sok Sokha Co.
Trong said that the
groundbreaking ceremony was of great importance as it demonstrated the
determination of the two governments and peoples and their tradition of
friendship and co-operation.
"We hope the highway,
after completion, will benefit the Cambodian people and the development triangle
of Laos, Viet Nam and Cambodia as the way will create another East-West economic
corridor linking Rattanakiri Province with Viet Nam’s Central Highlands
provinces and seaports in the central coast provinces," Trong said.
Hun Sen thanked the
Government and people of Viet Nam for their assistance in repairing and
upgrading the highway.
He said the upgrade of the
road was important to Cambodia’s northeast region and would facilitate farmers
in trading their products, greatly benefiting the Cambodian people.
This was a first step for
Rattanakiri and Cambodia as a whole to integrate into the development triangle.
Hun Sen also thanked the
Vietnamese Government for building a boarding school in Ban Lung and a central
market in Oyadav in Rattanakiri.
The help, coming when Viet
Nam itself still has many difficulties, reaffirms the solidarity, friendship,
and co-operation between the peoples of Viet Nam and Cambodia, he said. — VNS
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