SA KAEO, April 22 (TNA) – Thai Prime Minister Gen. Prayut Chan-ocha and his Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen on Monday presided over the opening of cross-border rail link between Aranyaprathet and Poipet.
Gen. Prayut officially opened the Ban Klong Luk border station, the new last train station on the Thai side on the rail route, linking with nighbouring Cambodia.
Both leaders witnessed the signing of an agreement on joint traffic working over railway between Thailand and Cambodia and the handover of a diesel-powered train with four carriages to Cambodia as a symbolic gesture of good relations between two countries.
Earlier today, the two prime ministers also chaired a ceremony to mark the completion of a new Thai-Cambodian Friendship Bridge, connecting Ban Nong Ian in Aranyaprathet and Stung Bot in Cambodia’s Banteay Meanchey province.
The new bridge, when it is fully opened will facilitate cross-border goods transportation and relieve traffic congestion at Ban Klong Luk border crossing.
Gen. Prayut said he would order agencies concerned to speed up the construction of border control facilitates as well as a road connecting the new bridge and the main route in Cambodian side.
Cross-border regulation will be developed and implemented in time for the opening of the bridge for public use, he added. (TNA)
