Friday, May 30, 2008

Cambodia to send 139 mine sweeping soldiers to Sudan under UN mission

PHNOM PENH, May 30 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia will send 139 soldiers to clean mines in Sudan under the UN mission, Cambodian National Defense Minister Tea Banh announced here on Friday.

"We will send 15 of them firstly on June 2 and the rest on June10 according to the schedule," Tea Banh told the national conference of the government's rectangular policy.

"Our K-315 group will return from Sudan on June 8," he said, adding that the new group of soldiers will replace them.

Cambodia has already sent two groups of mine sweeping soldiers to Sudan under UN humanitarian mission and each group had over 130soldiers, he said.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

What about the mines in Cambodia, Hun Sen?

Anonymous said...

We got surplus of expert mine finder and no money to pay them. Thus, it is to their best interest to work for the UN for good pay.

Anonymous said...

HUN SEN will do that by himself with his two hand and his one eye ..ok 12:34AM

Anonymous said...

PM Hun Sen doesn't have to do anything. People is dying to make big bucks outside of Cambodia. Some even willing to pay for the opportunity or similar.