Cambodia, Vietnam Seek Stop to Xayabari Dam Construction

5 July 2012
The Cambodia Daily
Environment and natural resources / Water resources
Cambodia / Cambodian National Mekong Committee / construction / dam / developments / Laos / letter / Lim Kean Hor / Mekong river / Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment / Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology / Nguyen Ming Quang / prime ministers / Thailand / Xayabari Dam

Cambodia and Vietnam will send a letter signed by the prime ministers of both countries to demand that Laos and Thailand halt the construction of a dam on the mainstream Mekong River in Laos, an official from the Cambodian National Mekong Committee said yesterday. The decision by Cambodia and Vietnam to express their discord came at a meeting on Tuesday between Minister of Water Resources and Meteorology Lim Kean Hor and Vietnam’s Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Nguyen Ming Quang, during which recent developments at the Xayaburi dam site were discussed. ...