HANOI: Vietnam helps Cambodia’s plan to construct a canal from the Mekong River basin to the Cambodian coast and wish to be concerned to find options for the canal’s attainable adverse results, its international 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 keeping with the Cambodian authorities.
“We assist the venture and respect the choice to construct the canal,” ministry spokesperson Doan Khac Viet informed an everyday media briefing.
“We wish to collaborate with Cambodia by way of analysis and affect evaluation in order that we are able to have correct options to cut back the affect,” he added.
Cambodia has repeatedly downplayed environmental considerations in regards to the new canal, which conservationists and Vietnamese authorities have mentioned may additional injury the delicate Mekong Delta, a big rice-producing area.