Cheam Channy following his release from jail stemming from a false accusation (Photo: SRP)Tuesday, February 19, 2008
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Translated from Khmer by Socheata
Kampong Cham SRP MP Cheam Channy denied a report printed by a local newspaper at the end of last week, claiming that he is defecting the SRP to join the CPP. In an interview with The Mekong Times, Cheam Channy indicated that he will pursue his tenure with SRP. He said that he never dreamed of joining the CPP at all. He added that the report is a demagoguery to incite his supporters to blame him, and an action deliberately taken for political gain. In response to the question whether the SRP defectors are conducting their own political suicide or not, Cheam Channy declined to comment. However, he told the newspaper to look back at those people who defected the party to join other parties, what was their final fate? What problems did they have to face later on?
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Kampong Cham SRP MP Cheam Channy is a cool guy and I have seen him in United States.
បើជាម ចន្នី សុខចិត្តចុះចូលជាមួយគណៈប្រជាជន នោះសមនឹងមានន័យថា លោកដឹងគុណការជាប់គុកយោធាហើយហើយមួយរយៈពេលនេះលោកមិនសូវចេញមុខ ចេញមាត់អ្វីទេ។ គួរស៊ូស្លាប់ខ្លួនជាជាង ស្លាប់ស្មារតី ស្លាប់គតិតស៊ូដើម្បីអនាគតជាតិ។ សូមបូងសួងឲ្យលោកចន្នីរក្សាជំហរជាអ្នកស្នេហាជាតិក្នលហាន៕
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This is the CPP trick to make bad publicity to SRP. They try to stir things around even it is not true. But, if opposition party claims fault statement, Ah Hun Sen will go after them. He will bring them to court or threat them with jail. Ah Hun Sen always applies his jungle power to intimidate people.
It's about time Khmer people in Srok Khmer and Kampuchea Krom stand up against these evil government. Kosovo gets its independent; therefore, Kampuchea Krom needs to fight for their independent too.
Bush Says Kosovo Independence Is Right
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WASHINGTON (AP) — With President Bush leading the way from Africa, U.S. officials are working across a broad international front to shore up support for Kosovo's declaration of independence.
"The independence of Kosovo is an historic step for the Balkans region," Bush said Tuesday in Tanzania before flying to Rwanda. "It presents an opportunity to move beyond the conflicts of the past and toward a future of freedom and stability and peace."
With actions unfolding in the United Nations and the European Union to back Kosovo, Bush made clear it was all part of a calculated effort.
This strategy was well planned," Bush said, noting that "we had worked out with our European allies the sequencing of it, to make sure that there was a concerted and constant voice supporting this move."
He said Russia was involved in those consultations even though it does not back Kosovo's move.
"Actually, we have been working very closely with the Russians, as we have with the Europeans and other nations on Kosovo's independence, because we believe it's the right thing to do," Bush said. "You know, there's a disagreement, but we believe, as do many other nations, that history will prove this to be a correct move, to bring peace to the Balkans." He added that "we have been in close consultation with the Russians all along. This wasn't a surprise to Russia."
Bush urged Kosovo to uphold its agreement to protect the rights of minorities and pledged the United States will work with other nations to bring about a smooth and peaceful transition to independence.
Earlier, Bush in a letter promised Kosovo's new president, Fatmir Sejdiu, that "the United states will be your partner and your friend."
Serbia recalled its ambassador from Washington over the U.S. decision, and it has threatened to recall its envoys from all countries that establish diplomatic ties with Kosovo, though it said it would not sever relations.
"We feel that this is a travesty of international law. We feel that the negotiations should go on," Ambassador Ivan Vujacic said at a news conference Monday evening at the Serbian Embassy in Washington, adding that he would leave the United States within 48 hours. "We feel that the imposed solution concerning Kosovo is not the right solution and will not add to stability."
Russia and Serbia maintained at a U.N. Security Council emergency session that an independent Kosovo violates the council's orders.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice welcomed "the commitments Kosovo made in its declaration of independence" to implement a United Nations-backed plan, "to embrace multi-ethnicity as a fundamental principle of good governance, and to welcome a period of international supervision."
In Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday that Rice telephoned him on Monday and that he "stressed our fundamental position that Pristina's unilateral actions in declaring the territory's independence of the territory are unacceptable." A ministry statement said Lavrov also emphasized "the danger of such a step, which threatens the destruction of the world order that has developed over centuries, and of international security."
Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns, at a news conference Monday, said, "I do not expect any kind of crisis with the Russians over this."
Burns said the nearly 17,000 NATO troops in Kosovo, including 1,600 U.S. forces, would remain in the country.
He also said that a donors conference would be held soon, and announced the United States was committing $334 million in U.S. assistance to Kosovo this year in addition to the $77 million provided in 2007.
Rep. Howard Berman, acting chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said he supported the diplomatic recognition but added, "Now the work begins. The challenges ahead include tackling high unemployment and bolstering the country's weak economy, strengthening political institutions and the rule of law, and preserving security throughout the region."
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What Independent Kosovo Must Now Do
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Kosovo's long-awaited declaration of independence from Serbia followed the failure of two years of internationally mediated talks on the United Nations-administered territory's future. The new state--the seventh to emerge from the ruins of the old Yugoslav federation--is likely to improve stability in what was the last remaining major flashpoint in the Balkans, by giving Kosovo's majority Albanians what they have demanded. However, it creates, for the time being, a "frozen conflict" with Serbia, which is refusing to give up its claim.
Kosovo's declaration of independence on Feb. 17 was formally unilateral. However, it followed extensive consultations with the U.S. and the European Union. Its timing suited E.U. requirements: It was delayed to allow the 27-nation bloc to authorize beforehand the deployment of a police and justice mission, EULEX Kosovo, so that E.U. members opposed to Kosovo's unilateral move could sign up to it without being seen as condoning independence.
The tasks ahead fall into two main categories:
--Kosovo's Assembly needs to approve a constitution to replace the Constitutional Framework established by the U.N. administration (UNMIK) and pass some 30 laws to provide the new state's legal foundation.
--EULEX is to be deployed over the next four months to help supervise the newly independent state, particularly in the rule of law and protection of Serb and other minority communities.
Legislative program. The main purpose of the required legislation is to incorporate into Kosovo's constitution and laws the proposals for its internationally supervised independence put forward by the U.N.'s former envoy for Kosovo, Martti Ahtisaari, in March 2007. Although Russia has blocked the Ahtisaari plan at the U.N., the West views it as the best possible way to ensure the viability of a democratic and multi-ethnic Kosovo. Many of its provisions, now to be adopted, concern ways to accommodate the Serb minority:
--Extensive powers over policing, justice, education and health care are to devolve to municipalities, allowing Kosovo's Serbs a large measure of self-government.
--There is to be special protection for the Serb Orthodox Church, whose monasteries in Kosovo Serbs regard as a defining part of their national identity.
--There are to be facilities to help guarantee the return of Serb and other refugees to Kosovo.
The rush to pass fresh legislation is unlikely to foster parliamentary oversight. A two-week public debate on the constitution, launched at the end of January, prompted widespread criticism because the draft was not published beforehand. Many of the meetings attracted so few participants that local town hall staff were asked to act as the audience.
E.U. mission. The deployment of EULEX, under French Gen. Yves de Karmebon, a former commander of the NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo, is to begin within days. It will, in practice, replace UNMIK, over a transitional period of 120 days. However, a small, residual U.N. presence is almost certain to remain, since Russia is unlikely to agree to its dismantling.
EULEX will have several key tasks, and face a number of difficulties:
--It will provide a 1,500-strong police contingent to supervise and assist the predominantly ethnic-Albanian Kosovo Police Service.
--Judges and prosecutors will provide expertise in tackling crime and administering impartial justice in a region where clan and family loyalties as well as intimidation have seriously impaired the functioning of the judiciary.
--Most Serbs, particularly in the four Serb-controlled northern municipalities, will almost certainly not cooperate with EULEX, as it is being deployed without specific U.N. authorization, and they view it as a tool for consolidating Kosovo's independence.
--In time, Kosovo's Albanians are likely to become increasingly frustrated with these relics of international supervision, now that they have their own independent state.
Security situation. The change in Kosovo's status--in the face of Serbia's bitter opposition--is unlikely to lead to any major confrontation, although increased tension could lead to local clashes:
--The 15,000 KFOR peacekeepers, reinforced in early February and assisted by the E.U. police, are set to stay on to provide overall security.
--Serbia has repeatedly said it will not use force to try to prevent Kosovo's separation; given KFOR's presence and the availability of NATO reinforcements, it will not be able to do so.
--Kosovo's beleaguered Serbs--just 5% in a population of 2 million--are not in a position to pose a major challenge, except in the north, where passive resistance is likely.
--Kosovo is to establish over the next year its own force of 2,500 soldiers and 800 reservists.
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SERBIA has recalled its ambassador to the United States and threatened similar action in countries that have recognised this week's independence declaration by Kosovo.
Serbia reacted after Washington recognised the breakaway province as independent.
President George Bush, who is visiting Africa, said Washington believed an independent Kosovo would bring peace to the Balkans.
"History will prove this will be a correct move to bring peace to the Balkans," Mr Bush said.
"Soon we will establish full diplomatic relations with the nation of Kosovo."
But Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic warned that Belgrade was withdrawing its ambassadors from other countries that had recognised Kosovo's secession, including Britain and France.
Officials were last night still deciding whether to withdraw from Australia.
Mr Jeremic warned that Belgrade would not maintain normal ties with "whoever decides to trample international law, whoever decides to brutalise and trample the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of the Republic of Serbia".
He also lamented the UN Security Council's failure today to rule on its call to invalidate Kosovo's secession.
"Unfortunately, the Security Council could not come to a conclusion," Mr Jeremic said after the 15-member body wrapped up a second day of emergency talks on Kosovo's decision on Sunday to unilaterally secede from Serbia.
"This is deeply regrettable. Serbia is not accepting it. Serbia is going to fight tooth and nail diplomatically and politically in each and every diplomatic forum against this illegitimate (act)."
Earlier, Serbian President Boris Tadic warned the council that the secession represented a dangerous precedent that would be emulated elsewhere and cause "irreparable damage" to the world order.
"There are dozens of various Kosovos in the world and all of them lie in wait for Kosovo's act of secession to become a reality and to be established as an acceptable norm," he noted.
In announcing US formal recognition of the new state, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stressed that Kosovo was a "special case", citing Yugoslavia's breakup, "the history of ethnic cleansing and crimes against civilians in Kosovo".
While pledging that Belgrade would not use force to reverse the secession declared on Sunday, Mr Tadic vowed that his country would "never renounce Kosovo" and would "not give up the struggle for our legitimate interests".
And Serbia's ally Russia told the council that "the situation developing as a result of the illegal steps of the province's leadership poses a threat to peace and security in the Balkans".
A number of European diplomats meanwhile argued that Kosovo's independence was now a fait accompli, and it was time for both Serbia and Kosovo to look ahead to integration into the European Union.
Germany, Italy and 14 other EU member states declared their intention to join Britain and France in recognising the new state.
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Separatists and states see hope and fear in Kosovo
Tue 19 Feb 2008, 12:40 GMT
[-] Text [+] By Peter Apps
LONDON, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Newly independent Kosovo might be a unique case, experts say, but it has nonetheless given fresh hope to separatist movements around the world and created a worrying precedent for nations with restive regions.
Effectively under international administration since NATO bombing forced the withdrawal of Serb forces in 1999, Kosovo follows the former Indonesian region of East Timor into independence -- and others are hoping to achieve similar status.
That worries countries from Spain to Sri Lanka, who are fighting their own insurgencies and independence movements and whose concern has led them to refuse to recognise Kosovo.
Almost all of those who have accepted Kosovo as the world's newest state have been keen to stress its uniqueness, citing its history, a near decade under international administration and its status as the final part to break away from former Yugoslavia.
The United States and others recognising Kosovo say Serbia lost the moral authority to the region because of atrocities, massacres and ethnic cleansing, and after negotiations repeatedly failed to find another solution.
"The mere fact that everyone is going to such great lengths to say it is a unique case and doesn't set a precedent means that ultimately it does set a precedent," said international relations lecturer Spyros Economides at the London School of Economics.
"It establishes a precedent that you can overturn national sovereignty for apparent moral or humanitarian reasons -- but we only apply it selectively."
For example, Western powers were happy to recognise Kosovo, but not Chechnya or Kurdistan, he added, for fear of overly upsetting Russia or Turkey.
Essentially, NATO had intervened militarily to back a separatist rebel group and Western states had nine years later formalised that independence, he said -- a significant shift from previous ideas of state sovereignty.
That is a step beyond what happened with the birth of other new nations born in recent years such as Eritrea, which broke away from Ethiopia, or East Timor. Indonesia's 1975 invasion of East Timor was never recognised by the United Nations.
"There is a conflict between two key legal standards," said Sabine Freizer, head of European programmes at the International Crisis Group. "There is the principle of territorial integrity which conflicts with the right to self-determination."
NEVER WITHDRAW
Kosovo's independence announcement rippled through the world's separatist movements and breakaway states, which range from disputed slivers of former Soviet republics to remote rebel enclaves in Asia or Africa.
A pro-Tamil Tiger rebel Web site said the recognition "debunked" arguments that a separate ethnic Tamil state in northern and eastern Sri Lanka was unviable.
Georgia said it feared Kosovo's independence may embolden breakaway movements in the Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions.
Moldova, with its own Russian-speaking breakaway region of Transdniestra, also warned it could be a "factor of destabilisation in Europe".
Ultimately, Economides said there was a risk countries -- possibly including Russia, a long-term Serbian ally angry at Western recognition of Kosovo -- might recognise other breakaway states in their neighbours in an attempt to destabilise them.
Experts say that, at the very least, Kosovo's fate acts as a drastic disincentive for countries to allow large multinational peacekeeping forces into areas such as Sudan's Darfur region that might in future want independence or greater autonomy.
Sri Lanka's ambassador to Geneva and the United Nations Dayan Jayatilleka said Serb forces should have held their ground in 1999 and fought NATO troops back.
"The...independence of Kosovo is the result of the failure of political will on the part of the ex-Yugoslav leadership," he wrote in a Sri Lankan newspaper, drawing lessons for his own country, where government forces are launching an assault into rebel territory where Tamil Tigers run a de facto state.
"Never withdraw the armed forces from any part of territory in which they are challenged, and never permit a foreign presence on (your) soil." (Editing by Kate Kelland and Jon Boyle)
Turkey recognizes Kosovo, Serbia recalls its ambassador
Turkey formally recognizes the newest state of the world, Kosovo, the Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said on Monday.
Turkey welcomes the elements and the content of the Kosovo's independence decleration, which was read in the Kosovar parliament on Sunday, Babacan said in statement.
Babacan also added Turkey values its regional and mutual relations with Serbia, who strongly opposes the Kosovo's independence. But Serbia Serbia is recalling its ambassadors for consultations from the countries recognizing the self-proclaimed independence of Kosovo, Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic said on Monday. Babacan will go Russia, the strongest supporter of Serbia in the UN Security Council, for a two day official visit on Tuesday.
Major European powers, including France, Germany and Britain, along with the United States, officially recognized Kosovo.
Before was East Timore. Now is Kosovo. Next will be Khmer Krom. Go Khmer Krom. We around the world or internationally will support for you independence. The reality will come soon! Khmer Krom all the way. Now that we have set up Khmer Krom government, we will soon achieve our dream.
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Keep dreaming.
YES and YEP and YA and YA keep dreaming xmer folks.
Keep watching your current land intact, that would be wonderful.
Our next stop will be new Saigon in PHANAM Pinh Nguyen.YAYAYAYA!!!!
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