Oct 25, 2007
DPA
Phnom Penh - Outgoing Polish ambassador to Cambodia Habil Ryszard Olszewski has announced Poland will wipe Cambodia's foreign debt on the condition the money is instead used to preserve the ancient Angkor Wat temples, an embassy spokesman said Thursday.
Poland will also continue to back Cambodia for a place on the non-permanent committee of the UN Security Council, the Phnom Penh based Polish embassy consul said.
'Cambodia and Poland have a relationship which goes back a long way,' he said. 'Aid has been spread across the board, but education and cultural funding have been well supported by Poland.'
The spokesman declined to disclose the total amount of Cambodia's debt to Poland, but government statistics put Poland's contribution for 2006 alone at around 10 million dollars.
The World Bank website lists Polish projects in Cambodia ranging from demobilisation to irrigation projects and flood relief. Poland also donated armoured personnel carriers to Cambodia in 1995.
The countries first established diplomatic relations more than 50 years ago, and Poland was the first to answer the call of Cambodia's newly installed Vietnamese-backed government in 1979 to assist in preserving the world-famous Angkor Wat temple complex, which lies 400 kilometres north of the capital.
Aid constitutes more than 12 per cent of Cambodia's gross domestic product, according the World Bank, and the CIA factbook listed Cambodia's external debt at 3.6 billion dollars in 2006.
Poland will also continue to back Cambodia for a place on the non-permanent committee of the UN Security Council, the Phnom Penh based Polish embassy consul said.
'Cambodia and Poland have a relationship which goes back a long way,' he said. 'Aid has been spread across the board, but education and cultural funding have been well supported by Poland.'
The spokesman declined to disclose the total amount of Cambodia's debt to Poland, but government statistics put Poland's contribution for 2006 alone at around 10 million dollars.
The World Bank website lists Polish projects in Cambodia ranging from demobilisation to irrigation projects and flood relief. Poland also donated armoured personnel carriers to Cambodia in 1995.
The countries first established diplomatic relations more than 50 years ago, and Poland was the first to answer the call of Cambodia's newly installed Vietnamese-backed government in 1979 to assist in preserving the world-famous Angkor Wat temple complex, which lies 400 kilometres north of the capital.
Aid constitutes more than 12 per cent of Cambodia's gross domestic product, according the World Bank, and the CIA factbook listed Cambodia's external debt at 3.6 billion dollars in 2006.
25 comments:
"Poland wipes Cambodian debt, how about Vietnam, the so-called close ally of Cambodia, can it do the same?"
That is such a stupid question. It can only come from a retard people like Ah Khmer-Yuon Chkout (Heng Soy).
Vietnam had wiped lot of loan from Cambodia easily worth 10-20 times those of the Poland's.
1:30AM
Man, Heng Soy's comment at least has some ground. Vietnam not only can encroach Cambodia's border land, also can influence and benefit from trading with Cambodia. Not count illegal immigrants. Cambodia has huge trading deficit with Vietnam, but current government is blind to elaborate this issue.
Not only that benefit, Vietnam gains from Cambodia, the dept during Vietnam's invasion in Cambodia is massive.
You might know how much Cambodia owe Russia? Of course, Cambodia didn't borrow Russia, Vietnam borrowed those monies...but why Cambodian leaders agreed to pay back to Russia 1000 millions dollars.
Vietnam has been severely exploiting Cambodia. Vietnam has to change its policy, if they want to live side by side and having mutual respect with Cambodia.
KY
Wrong, 2:28, I don't see any encroachment anywhere. It is all KKF propaganda, because they fear for their evil doing to Vietnamese people. Ah Khmer-Yuons hallucinate that they smart and know it all, but for centuries now, they have not proven crab. They just continue to sink themselves deeper and deeper into shit hole. Isn't that obvious?
How do you prove your statement 2:28 that Cambodian border land is not being encroached? From your rotten government or other sources?
As I know, many Cambodian civilians who are living a long the border has lost their lands during Songkum Reastr Niyum...and they are crying of gradually violation of Vietnam in present day...are you deaf with the voice of those innocent border people?
KKF is not abusing Vietnam, man; be sure that you are Khmer to have enough sympathy to our Khmer race. KKF is under oppression and violations Vietnam relating their culture and religious practices.
KKFs are the victim, not Yeaknames are the victime. And the struggling of KKF is rational as it is in need for basic human rights respect.
I hope yourself also needs basic rights to live.
KY
3:25, In the 21st century we don't used rumors or gossip as a proof for border dispute. We have GPS. Show me what is been lost, and stop the nonsense, will ya?
And sure KKF is a victim now, but that is universal justice for their hatred, racism, and their evil doing for splitting up Vietnames people and get millions of innocent Vietnamese kill, not to mention the destruction of the entire country along with it. So don't blame us for that. We have nothing to do with them for several centuries now. You get the picture?
This animal@3:57 must be shipped out to the nearest mental hospital!
3:57AM
Who justify your mentioned GPS, and who Cambodian expert in GPS? Andy intermediary for such GPS?. Show me. It is just an excuse for powerful and influential country like Vietnam to deceive their lackey (CPP?). Cambodian people in border cannot depend on their local commune when they cry of losing land, so Cambodia is independent?
Are you living in the border area? If not, how you know that Cambodian people in border make gossip? You fool yourself? Or you know better than those meanstream local people who live from day to day?
If KKF has hatred or racism like what you said, it is because Vietnam has created situation stipulating them to be hatred through their oppression...
Anywhere has oppression, it must have hatred....but you have to understand in your brain that, any struggling for freedom is not called hatred, but freedom struggling...frankly you have advanced a lot of from your oppressor's propaganda.
Vietnam has to stop their ambition to annex Cambodia as part of their vessel.
KY
What are you talking about now? Man, don't you know you can't relied on rumors? There are many Ah khmer-Yuon who live around the border and created all sorts of confusion. Thus, what we need is map, satelite gps ... or anything that is not based on gossips, okay?
What? Vietnam causing Ah Khmer-Yuon to be racism and hatred? right, and I bet you also say the African-American also causing the white folk to become hatred and racism before the early 1920's. Isn't that so?
Yuon Vietcong troller on KI-media like this animal@8:24 AM that is pretending to be khmer and calling khmer "Ah Khmer-Yuon" must be euthanized asap...
Further truth about our past has come out and continues to come out with the passage of time.
Poland has offered to wipe out Cambodia's debt to it. China had done so much earlier. Cambodia has requested Russia or ex-Soviet Union to do the same, but no positive response has been forthcoming yet. Which regime(s) has (have) borrowed such money from those countries, and what for?
But one thing is clear and runs counter a claim that Cambodia's international isolation during the Vietnamse occupation "had punished the poor" because of the absence of international assistance. Now the debt relief has shown that, despite that isolation, Cambodia were not deprived of international assistance.
Maybe some day, Cambodian historians need to study this debt issue and the accountability of regimes or governments responsible for Cambodia's foreign debt. Lessons could be drawn from such a history to improve our governance.
LAO Mong Hay, Hong Kong
Oh well! The Vietcong pretend to be friend of Cambodia and AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave pretend to a sucker to the Vietcong! ahahhahah!
everytime the filthy troller mouth opens, it makes my heart hate my vc goverment more and more. They are the true haverster of thieves, liars, hipocrit and hatred like the troller. Lies only cause more hatred.
Your comparison of why white hate black is totally the reverse. You're an idiot!
Go clean your mouth with soap. I dont want to hate another fellow vietnamese.
Ah, shut the fuck up, asshole (Ah Khmer-Yuon). You didn't make any sense whatsoever.
Give it up Youn/Viet troller @10:13 AM. Yuon/Viet troller can no longer go around on KI-Media pretending to be Khmer and calling Khmer "Ah Khmer-Yuon". You Yuon/Viet troller is soon to be euthanized. So quit while you can. Quit, Yuon/Viet troller, quit!
To 9:40AM! Viet people defender!
Before I attack you and I want to ask you a simple question and the question is are you a Vietcong or a representative of the Vietcong government?
It is kind a sad isn't it for you to defend the Viet which the Vietcong government can do a better job than you! Ahhahah!
By the way there are 10 million Khmer Krom people who continue to suffer at the hand of the Vietcong and I haven't seen you defending the Khmer Krom people? What is the matter you? Are you blind or are you a racist yourself? Listen fool! Nobody Khmer people asked you to hate the Viet people but it is their fucken Vietcong government that creates all kind of hatred, heartache, and headache and ambivalent for everybody!
Don't you ever forget that on this planet Earth and there is a special place for Khmer people too and not just for the Viet people! And with that in mind and you go love your Viet people all you want and nobody is going to stop you!
8:24AM
Your attitude is not different from CPP's top leaders that always treat their own people (Cambodian people) like animals: gossipers, destroyer Vietnam-Khmer relationship...etc
Khiev Kannaridh is the leading person in mocking and insulting their own people when responding to the reporters...
When those people want to express their idea on how to survive Cambodia, they are injailed...
Cambodia is led and controlled through fear ....election is used as a propaganda...
KY
10:26, Ah Khmer-Yuon is not Khmer. They don't have the same moral value as Khmer. They believe that Cambodia should be split up. They only called for Unity when their asses is on the line for splitting Vietnam and causing damages beyond anyone imagination. What they wanted is for us (Khmer) to take back their land for them and get lost afterward. All I can say is don't hold your breath that. It will never happened. There is a rational and constructive way to undo the damages that they did in Vietnam, but they don't want that. They preferred to take the destructive avenue that they have taken for a couple generations (or 50 years) now. What more can we do for someone who have never seen eye2eye with us (Khmer) for centuries now?
Yes, 10:24, I am our beloved neighbors (Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, China, and Burma) defender. So let me have it, will ya? don't hold anything back, okay?
So who is stopping you and why are you still here? I suggest that you should move to wherever you please with all yours belonging before it is too late! Don't you get it by now and it can only get worse!
Well, right now I don't mind relocate to Hanoi, but the real-estate is 2-3 times those of Phnom Penh. However, if you got some cashes to spare, I can be outta here as soon as a few weeks. How's that sound?
To 3:234PM!
You fucken dirt bag! Who are kidding here! There are many dirt cheap state-owned residential building in Hanoi which cost about 6 dollar a month! Ahahhaahha!
Come on! Don't tell me that you can't afford 6 dollars!
Well, I am a losers like your Long Beachers who live in the government funding slum generation after generation, alright. I have to have a home with extra land to plant veggies, fruit trees, ..., and that currently can easily cost 75k-125k.
Kiss my arse bitch! I don't even know what the fuck you are talking about and if that is the case and would be kind enough to show the world some statistic and compare that to the Viet population in Little Saigon, Westminster! Support your claim!
Fool! Long Beach is way more expensive to live than to live in Hanoi and you are telling me that you can afford to live in Long Beach but you can't afford to live in Hanoi? Ahahhahahhah! Do you see how twisted your stupid logic is?
Whatever dirt bag! I can Google all about Long Beach to find out but I don’t have to because I know for a fact that anything in the U.S. is always more expensive than in Vietname! You mother never teach you how to lie! Ahahhah!
Time out, 7:17, I made as serious grammar error: I meant to say I am NOT a losers like your LongBeachers ...
Anyway, my home in Cambodia worths about 40k, in Long Beach the same house worths about 600k, and in Hanoi, it worths about 120k, comprendre?
I ain't going to let you have time out! When it is a better time to kick a man when he is down? Aahahah! I am going to kick your fucken arse some more!
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