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U.N. agrees to lend Cambodia maps for border line verification with Vietnam

Xinhua, August 7, 2015 Adjust font size:

The United Nations has agreed to loan original maps in its keeping to Cambodia for verifying with the current maps the Cambodian government is using to demarcate border line with Vietnam, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in a letter.

The loan of the maps came after Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen requested him last month to borrow Bonne map, scale 1/100,000, that Cambodia deposited at the United Nations in 1964.

In a letter replied to Hun Sen's request on Wednesday and released to the media Thursday night, Ban said the U.N. Secretariat was unable to find the mentioned maps, but identified amongst the holdings of the U.N. Dag Hammarskjold Library both electronic and print copies of maps which may be of interest to the Cambodian government.

"A full set of copies of these maps in digital format was provided to His Excellency Mr. Ry Tuy, Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Cambodia to the United Nations, on July 27, 2015," he said.

The library did not loan maps in its keeping, but it was an exceptional basis for Cambodia, Ban said, adding that the library would loan the aforementioned maps to the Cambodian government for a limited period of time, subject to conditions and understandings to be set out in an exchange of letters between the U.N. and the Cambodian government.

In a replied letter, Hun Sen thanked Ban for lending the maps to Cambodia.

He said the government has set up an ad-hoc committee, led by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong, in order to receive the maps.

Cambodian and Vietnamese border issues have become a hot topic in Cambodia in the last few months after the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party has accused the Phnom Penh government of using wrong maps to demarcate border line with Vietnam. Endi