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 potential unfavorable results, its international ministry mentioned on Thursday (Aug 8).
Cambodian authorities broke floor on Monday on the US$1.7-billion Funan Techo Canal, a challenge that’s meant to divert a big a part of Cambodian transport away from Vietnam, in line with the Cambodian authorities.
“We help the challenge 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 influence evaluation in order that we will have correct options to scale back the influence,” he added.
Cambodia has repeatedly downplayed environmental considerations concerning the new canal, which conservationists and Vietnamese authorities have mentioned might additional harm the delicate Mekong Delta, a big rice-producing area.
