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Cambodia to build wall at border areas with Thailand

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-08-24 19:50

PHNOM PENH  -- Cambodian government planned to build concrete walls at complicated border areas with Thailand, a Cambodian official said here on Sunday.

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Both sides should start to discuss to plant border markers from undisputed border areas to the complicated border areas and some complicated border areas will be built with border markers or concrete walls, Khieu Kanharith, Information Minister and government spokesman, told reporters at a press conference.

Cambodian government will allow private companies to invest at least two million US dollars at the Preah Vihear Temple to set up cable cars for tourists, he said, adding that the government is also trying to build road accessing to the temple.

The Preah Vihear border gate to Thailand will be open when the situation there is stable, he said, adding that foreign tourists could visit the temple from the Cambodian side.

Cambodia and Thailand share a border of over 800 km with only 73 demarcation markers.

Previously, during the meeting on August 18-19, Cambodian and Thai foreign ministers agreed to arrange a second-phase troop redeployment at the disputed border area near the Preah Vihear Temple in the eponymous province of Cambodia.

Both sides will convene a meeting between Head of the Cambodian Temporary Coordinating Task Force and Head of the Thai Regional Border Committee on August 29 in Cambodia to discuss the second- phase of redeployment.

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