Thai authorities attend ceremony to start road construction in Cambodia

CAMBODIA, Feb 15 (TNA) - The deputy governor of Thailand’s Sa Kaeo province bordering Cambodia attended a ceremony to start the construction of a road at a three-way junction in Ban Nimit village of Cambodia’s Banteay Meanchey province on Tuesday (Feb 15). People from both countries are relieved to witness good relations between the Thai and Cambodian provinces.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday (Feb 15) presided over the ceremony to start the construction of Road No. 59 at three-way Ban Nimit junction in Ou Chrov district of Banteay Meanchey which is about 13 kilometers away from the border checkpoint of Thailand’s Aranyaprathet district. The road will stretch 144 kilometers along the Thai-Cambodian border from Aranyaprathet to Chanthaburi province.

The Cambodian government invited all ambassadors to Phnom Penh to attend the ceremony. It also invited the governor of Sa Kaeo province and the governor assigned his deputy Chat Kittinoppadol to attend it on his behalf. The deputy governor went there with the Thai chief of a local Thai-Cambodian border coordination office who represented the Thai military.

Umporn Sohpong, deputy governor of Banteay Meanchey province, and Major General Dee Pen, the Cambodian chief of the Thai-Cambodian border coordination office, received the Thai delegation at the Aranyaprathet border checkpoint.

Local Thai and Cambodian traders are happy to see the good relations between authorities of Sa Kaeo and Banteay Meanchey provinces. (TNA)