Xinhua
PHNOM PENH -- Both the Myanmar government and the United Nations have to go ahead with the process of democracy, said Cambodian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Hor Namhong on Thursday.
He made these remarks after meeting with UN special envoy to Myanmar Ibrahim Gambari, who arrived here on Thursday morning for a two-day visit.
"Cambodia proposes that UN and Myanmar should go forward step by step with the process of democracy" and the international community should also have to encourage the Myanmar government to do more with the process, Hor told reporters.
This is the request of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), he said, adding that Cambodia supports the engagement between UN and Myanmar as well as that between the Myanmar government and Aung San Suu Kyi.
"I told Gamabari that we don't have to talk about the sanction on Myanmar any more from now on, but we have to provide humanitarian aid for the Myanmar government and the Myanmar people as the French foreign minister proposed before," he said.
"Gambari told me that the UN involvement with Myanmar's issues doesn't mean to oppose the Myanmar government, but to cooperate with it and help solve the problems there," Hor said.
Before departing the meeting, Gambari told reporters that his discussion with Hor on Myanmar's situation is very useful, but didn't elaborate on it.
"You all will know about this full discussion tomorrow in my press conference," he said.
Myanmar Prime Minister General Thein Sein will pay a goodwill visit to Cambodia on Friday, which will be his introductory trip to another member country of ASEAN following those to Laos and Vietnam earlier this month.
He made these remarks after meeting with UN special envoy to Myanmar Ibrahim Gambari, who arrived here on Thursday morning for a two-day visit.
"Cambodia proposes that UN and Myanmar should go forward step by step with the process of democracy" and the international community should also have to encourage the Myanmar government to do more with the process, Hor told reporters.
This is the request of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), he said, adding that Cambodia supports the engagement between UN and Myanmar as well as that between the Myanmar government and Aung San Suu Kyi.
"I told Gamabari that we don't have to talk about the sanction on Myanmar any more from now on, but we have to provide humanitarian aid for the Myanmar government and the Myanmar people as the French foreign minister proposed before," he said.
"Gambari told me that the UN involvement with Myanmar's issues doesn't mean to oppose the Myanmar government, but to cooperate with it and help solve the problems there," Hor said.
Before departing the meeting, Gambari told reporters that his discussion with Hor on Myanmar's situation is very useful, but didn't elaborate on it.
"You all will know about this full discussion tomorrow in my press conference," he said.
Myanmar Prime Minister General Thein Sein will pay a goodwill visit to Cambodia on Friday, which will be his introductory trip to another member country of ASEAN following those to Laos and Vietnam earlier this month.
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