HANOI: Vietnam helps Cambodia’s plan to construct a canal from the Mekong River basin to the Cambodian coast and want to be concerned find options for the canal’s attainable damaging results, its overseas ministry mentioned on Thursday (Aug 8).
Cambodian authorities broke ground on Monday on the US$1.7-billion Funan Techo Canal, a venture that’s meant to divert a big a part of Cambodian transport away from Vietnam, in response to the Cambodian authorities.
“We assist the venture and respect the choice to construct the canal,” ministry spokesperson Doan Khac Viet advised a daily media briefing.
“We want to collaborate with Cambodia when it comes to analysis and impression evaluation in order that we are able to have correct options to scale back the impression,” he added.
Cambodia has repeatedly downplayed environmental issues in regards to the new canal, which conservationists and Vietnamese authorities have mentioned may additional harm the delicate Mekong Delta, a big rice-producing area.
