Kingdom rejects VN request

Cambodia rebuffed Vietnam’s request to provide nationality to its citizens living in Kratie, Mondulkiri, Ratanakiri and Stung Treng provinces, with officials saying law enforcement is the Kingdom’s responsibility.

Chheang Vun, the head of the National Assembly’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation, Propaganda and Information, told reporters on Monday that tense talks had been held with Vietnam and Laos over the weekend at the seventh conference of the three countries’ National Assembly committees for external relations.

The conference, held in Ha Long city in Vietnam’s Quang Ninh province on Saturday and Sunday, addressed the national assemblies’ roles in promoting and implementing an agreement on cooperation in the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam (CLV) Development Triangle Area.

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