Prime Minister Hun Sen, in a military uniform, walks past a row of military officers during a ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in this April 12, 2006, file photo. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File) PHNOM PENH, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia will slim the army by 40,000 members and finally hold it at 70,000 in total, as part of an overall military reform, Ke Kim Yan, commander-in-chief of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces, said here on Monday.
Yan made the remarks while meeting with visiting Liang Guanglie, chief of general staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, at the military headquarters.
Meanwhile, the army will downsize its organizations from over 20 divisions to 12 brigades, train more young officers abroad, and establish more military camps within the country, he said.
In order to push through the reforms, the Cambodian army needs more equipment and training, he added.
Liang expressed understanding of the reform, saying that China intends to send professional staff members to the kingdom to help the army carry out its reform.
In addition, Cambodia can also send more officers to China for training, he added.
Liang arrived here on Saturday night on the first stop of his goodwill Asia tour which embraced Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand.
On Monday, he also met Prime Minister Hun Sen on bilateral tie sand attended the inauguration ceremony of a military hospital's clinic building together with Deputy Prime Minister and Co-Minister of Defense Tea Banh.
Liang will leave for Laos on Tuesday.
Yan made the remarks while meeting with visiting Liang Guanglie, chief of general staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, at the military headquarters.
Meanwhile, the army will downsize its organizations from over 20 divisions to 12 brigades, train more young officers abroad, and establish more military camps within the country, he said.
In order to push through the reforms, the Cambodian army needs more equipment and training, he added.
Liang expressed understanding of the reform, saying that China intends to send professional staff members to the kingdom to help the army carry out its reform.
In addition, Cambodia can also send more officers to China for training, he added.
Liang arrived here on Saturday night on the first stop of his goodwill Asia tour which embraced Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand.
On Monday, he also met Prime Minister Hun Sen on bilateral tie sand attended the inauguration ceremony of a military hospital's clinic building together with Deputy Prime Minister and Co-Minister of Defense Tea Banh.
Liang will leave for Laos on Tuesday.
4 comments:
THis prove that Cambodia is under a military ruler and is not a democratic country. Under a democratic country all defenses will be resposibled by Minister of defense and not under the order of Prime Minister. The law must must be properly designated.
I do not think it counts. VN are Hun Sen's arm focres. We can cut all and still have security from VN. We are better support him while he is power. We do have frontier to worry about.
God bless Khmer and VN
To anonymous 9:34AM,
" VN are Hun Sen's arm focres. We can cut all and still have security from VN. We are better support him while he is power. We do have frontier to worry about.
God bless Khmer and VN"
Hem! It smells like a fish that a Viet fisherman got from Khmer's Tonle Sap lake.
Re:Anon@9:34AM
One more Vietcong among us on KI-Media huh? Welcome ah Yuon Katop VIETCONG! What else do you have to say about yourself?
10/17/06
AK4AnetKhmer
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