Original report from Phnom Penh
12 January 2009
Prime Minister Hun Sen has said he will attend this year’s Asean meeting in Thailand, following numerous requests from neighboring leaders, a government spokesman said Monday.
Hun Sen had previously urged Thai officials, who are leading the rotating chairmanship of the group this year, to postpone for security concerns. He had also claimed he might not himself attend.
“After that, friends of Cambodia asked Prime Minister Hun Sen [to attend], saying that if he did not attend, many other Asean countries might not attend either,” the spokesman, Khieu Kanharith, said.
Foreign Minister Hor Namhong told reporters Sunday after meeting his Japanese counterpart, Nakasone Hirofumi, that Hun Sen would attend, which is scheduled from Feb. 27 through March 1 in Hua Hin, Thailand.
Cambodia and Thailand remain at loggerheads over disputed borderland near Preah Vihear temple, where troops from both sides have been entrenched since July.
Hun Sen had previously urged Thai officials, who are leading the rotating chairmanship of the group this year, to postpone for security concerns. He had also claimed he might not himself attend.
“After that, friends of Cambodia asked Prime Minister Hun Sen [to attend], saying that if he did not attend, many other Asean countries might not attend either,” the spokesman, Khieu Kanharith, said.
Foreign Minister Hor Namhong told reporters Sunday after meeting his Japanese counterpart, Nakasone Hirofumi, that Hun Sen would attend, which is scheduled from Feb. 27 through March 1 in Hua Hin, Thailand.
Cambodia and Thailand remain at loggerheads over disputed borderland near Preah Vihear temple, where troops from both sides have been entrenched since July.
9 comments:
"... if he did not attend, many other Asean countries might not attend either,”
That is called friends support friends.
Without him, many other Asean countries might not attend either. Sounds like he now being more important leader.
Is that true, or is that just a joke? Thailand has said that the meeting can go without Hun Sen’s present. That could be a political face-saving on both sides.
The Kingdom of Cambodia is an official member of the ASEAN and Mr. Hun Sen as PM should present at the ASEAN Meeting
Spit Saliva and swallow it back! That's Dog! SO so so Cheap!
Sandal Shoe flip flap! No wonder anti corruption for the last decade goes nowhere ...international donor should see that!
Nosense, stealing is against the law already. So why having anti-corruption?
Get a life, motherfucker (5:25)!
DO NOT FALL INTO THE TRAP. THEY LOSE TODAY, BUT WIN TOMORROW. STAY CALM AND MATURE FOR THE SAKE OF OUR COUNTRY! Cambodia attends the meeting because of member's responsibility.
Does he have any credibility in the international arena, or does he care about it? One day he says he may not attend the meeting, and the next day he says the opposite. If he could not make up his mind, why can't he simply shut up? Where are those one hundred plus advisors on the payroll?
This Hun Sen is flip flopping. Words came from his mouth is worthless. Perhap, someone from Thailand is paying enough money. Yes, he is not important to thailand but given the current situation in thailand, thailand PM just need him to show up, although he is nothing to thai PM.
Hun Sen is being used and he agreed to it because he got paid from Thai PM.
This blind man is really blind when it come to benefit Khmer. If it benefit him and his cronies, he is not blind.
This is a son of a farmer really killing the farmers across Cambodia.
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