Ouch Borith, Secretary of State at the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, made the statement, rejecting the Khmer Campuchea Krom (KKK)’s appeal for the Cambodian government’s intervention to release several Khmer detainees in southern Vietnam.
In an appeal to the Cambodian government, the KKK demanded the government act to help free some Khmer people living in Vietnam’s south-western region who had been detained for Vietnamese law violation.
In a January 17 dispatch to the KKK, Ouch Borith stated those Khmer people living in the aforementioned region are Vietnamese citizens and they must abide by Vietnamese law.
Cambodia and Vietnam are independent and sovereign nations and Cambodia will not intervene in the internal affairs of other countries, he noted.