PM tells France he will not fuel tension at Thai border
Monday, 20 July 2009
Vong Sokheng
The Phnom Penh Post
In lunch meeting with President Sarkozy, Hun Sen said he will not allow border issue to expand 'into other areas', official says.
PRIME Minister Hun Sen has promised French President Nicolas Sarkozy that he will not provoke tension at the Thai-Cambodian border, a Council of Ministers official said Sunday.
Speaking to reporters at the airport upon the premier's return, Prak Sokhon, secretary of state at the Council of Ministers, said Hun Sen had promised the French government that he would not provoke "civil war or tension" or "allow for an enlargement [of the dispute] into other areas" as he sought to bring "justice" to the Cambodian people in the matter of the Preah Vihear temple dispute.
Prak Sokhon said Hun Sen also told Sarkozy during an official lunch that he considered the start of the trials of former Khmer Rouge leaders to be a positive development, though he said the country should also focus on issues of peace.
"It was the highest level of lunch discussion between the leaders of the two countries that we have ever had in France," Prak Sokhon said. "The French president, prime minister and minister of foreign affairs ... agreed to increase cooperation."
A few dozen government ministers and secretaries of state were present at Phnom Penh International Airport to welcome Hun Sen and his wife, Bun Rany.
Though Prak Sokhon was tight-lipped about details of the trip, he said Hun Sen had attended the opening of the Bastille Day military parade on Tuesday.
Koy Kuong, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told the Post Sunday that officials hope bilateral cooperation between Cambodia and France will grow stronger following the visit.
"Our foreign policy is to promote bilateral cooperation in order to bring development to our country," he said.
Fabyene Mansencal, first secretary at the French Embassy in Phnom Penh, could not be reached for comment Sunday.
PRIME Minister Hun Sen has promised French President Nicolas Sarkozy that he will not provoke tension at the Thai-Cambodian border, a Council of Ministers official said Sunday.
Speaking to reporters at the airport upon the premier's return, Prak Sokhon, secretary of state at the Council of Ministers, said Hun Sen had promised the French government that he would not provoke "civil war or tension" or "allow for an enlargement [of the dispute] into other areas" as he sought to bring "justice" to the Cambodian people in the matter of the Preah Vihear temple dispute.
Prak Sokhon said Hun Sen also told Sarkozy during an official lunch that he considered the start of the trials of former Khmer Rouge leaders to be a positive development, though he said the country should also focus on issues of peace.
"It was the highest level of lunch discussion between the leaders of the two countries that we have ever had in France," Prak Sokhon said. "The French president, prime minister and minister of foreign affairs ... agreed to increase cooperation."
A few dozen government ministers and secretaries of state were present at Phnom Penh International Airport to welcome Hun Sen and his wife, Bun Rany.
Though Prak Sokhon was tight-lipped about details of the trip, he said Hun Sen had attended the opening of the Bastille Day military parade on Tuesday.
Koy Kuong, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told the Post Sunday that officials hope bilateral cooperation between Cambodia and France will grow stronger following the visit.
"Our foreign policy is to promote bilateral cooperation in order to bring development to our country," he said.
Fabyene Mansencal, first secretary at the French Embassy in Phnom Penh, could not be reached for comment Sunday.
2 comments:
One eyed hyena yelping again.
Below there are the comments where are extracted from Le Figaro news paper,July 20 2009 , around the Bastille Day of France,July 14 2009.
Instead of 5 days state visit French government had cut down to 2 days.
It was no official talking between Sarkozy & Hun Sen in the Elysee Palace.
Hun Sen to the country of human rights
14/07/2009 at 16:41
1st Minister, placed by the strength of the Vietnamese invasion, the former Khmer Rouge commander Pol Pot, was celebrated at the feast of 14 July NLE. The community of Cambodians citizens french asks: his visit and his meetings with the French authorities (Minister of Foreign Affairs, MPs, Senators ...) they would be beneficial to the Cambodian people?
This honor restore its reputation, it would encourage even more the strong man to continue to commit its packages (human rights, political assassinations,, arbitrary arrests of elected officials, journalists ...). Or, we hope they are beneficial to the Cambodian people to know that after "wiped the floor french feet the blood of its packages and received lessons from France, human rights, democracy , freedom, the strong man of Phnom Penh apply the happiness of the people. A follow on his return! If it did not change its policy undemocratic, it would not deserve its place on the podium of 14juillet, National Day of Freedom
Barang @
13/07/2009 at 19:34
I understand your outrage but your Prime Minister has no place in France because of its trajectory. The friendship between France and Cambodia will exist forever, but your prime minister who abuses his countrymen does not represent the real Cambodia. When it was the marionette of the Marxist government of Vietnam, he liked little France.
Everyone in Cambodia is corrupt, except the poor who constitute the majority. C is with them that France is a friend, not with these corrupt, whether it be a symbol of Hun Sen or the symbol of the royal family who is re-filled pockets since 1991.
All international organizations are saying in their reports.
before it is long ...
13/07/2009 at 18:53
will scroll on side by side IDF and Hamas ... Mujahideen and Al-Qaeda ... Khmer Rouge or stuffed!
Ingrid Betancourt and Gilad Shalit will be heard in the gallery ...
N Cambodia has no place in the parade
13/07/2009 16:26
Corrupt countries, represented by the Hun Sen gangster whose wife requires Cartier jewelry closes its doors in order to spend millions of euros of the people of Cambodia, Cambodia should not be represented at the celebration of French democracy.
The Royal Family, represented by the great Prince Ranaridth thief (elder brother of the King), which has the same s exile in Malaysia in 2006 in order to avoid prison, represents an incredible corruption, while he lived in a modest 2-room flat in Aix in Provence during the exile from 1975 to 1991.
99% of Cambodians are trying to survive on less than one euro per day.
N this country has no place here July 14. When true democracy will be installed, France will give him all the honors.
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