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contrepartie de cette construction, une zone d’un kilomètre de chaque côté de la route devrait
être concédée à la joint-venture pour planter des arbres afin de générer des revenus.
« By agreement, the company agreed to build a red soil road size 400 km by 9
meters starting from O’rang district, Mondulkiri, Dak Dam post to Dragon Tail
region, Rattanakiri, along Cambodian-Vietnamese border. The road will cost at
USD 4,000,000 (USD 10,000 per kilometre) and bridge construction cost USD
2,000,000. After it finish, the company requests for the land concession [in
return] with 1 kilometre wide along the road sides (left and right) so that the
company will plant rubber-acacia-Chan Kreusna trees and various plants for the
company’s income source of income (sic) (…) To make the company feel
confident in preparation for investment capital, the company proposed me, as a
Member of Parliament in the north-east region, to contact and ask for a decision
and support from Samdech Prime Minister regarding this case (…) 203 ».
Dans sa lettre le député soutient bien évidemment le projet au nom du développement
régional, de la souveraineté nationale, mais aussi d’enjeux politiques plus électoralistes et
notamment de la fidélité envers une compagnie qui a toujours financé ses campagnes
électorales.
203 Ibidem.
204 Ibidem.
« At present, people have very difficulty to travel by road from Mondulkiri to
Kratie. They spent time to cross through Vietnam or go back to Rattanakiri and
Strung Treng before reaching Rattanakiri. On the other hand, during the election
campaign, the opposition party attack the government by raising the in
development (sic) along the border, [accusing] the government of neglecting to
think about the sovereignty. If the project will be successful, this project will not
only help facilitate the people’s travel straight to Mondulkiri-Rattanakiri or
onwards trip as well as enhancing the national economy, it also protects the
sovereignty with development especially upholding further population and
internal political affairs. On the contrary, if the project fails, the government will
suffer lose because the company already agreed to build road before clearing for
plantation. At least the people understand about the royal government’s heartfelt
preoccupation on the border region, which contradicting to the opposition
party’s attack. In the spirit to support Ty Pheap Company, which the company
always assisted a lot to my political affairs in the past directly or indirectly from
its foreign company partners, I would like to ask Samdech Prime Minister to
give agreement in principle and support for this project. Any worry over cutting
trees from both road building and plantation project is unavoidable even though
it is carried by the private company or the state. I understand that this is not an
obstacle because according to the site observation, the forest in this region
suffered completely destruction. On the other hand, regarded the impacted trees,
the company agrees to pay timber royalty to the government 204 ».