Tuesday, 16 March 2010
James O'Toole
The Phnom Penh Post
Body rejects UN comments on passage of Anticorruption Law.
THE Council of Ministers said Monday that the UN had been wrong to weigh in on the passage of the Kingdom’s Anticorruption Law, arguing that the body had shown a lack of respect for Cambodian sovereignty.
In a statement released by its Press and Quick Reaction Unit, the Council of Ministers said the government had spent years in consultation with the UN and other international organisations to develop the law. Widespread criticisms that the legislation was pushed through the National Assembly too quickly, the Council said, were thus unwarranted.
“The Royal Government of Cambodia, which has been democratically elected through free and fair elections, would like to take this opportunity to remind the ‘UN Country Team’ that there is a time for consultation, but there is also a time for decision,” the Council of Ministers said.
The Council added that the UN and other organisations had no legal basis on which to rest their criticisms of the law, which was passed without amendment by the National Assembly last week in two days of debate.
“No international standards require the core of the national sovereignty to seek the approval from the different organisations and civil societies, either national or international, that failed to enjoy the legitimacy directly from the Cambodian people,” the Council of Ministers said.
UN spokeswoman Margaret Lamb declined to comment.
“The draft Anticorruption Law should undergo a transparent and participatory consultation process to ensure that it is consistent with international standards,” the UN said, noting “with concern” the brief window between the draft law’s release and the opening of debate in the National Assembly.
The criticisms of the UN position by the Council of Ministers followed those aired last week by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which accused the UN of acting “as if it were the spokesperson of the opposition parties”.
Hang Chhaya, executive director of the Khmer Institute for Democracy, said the government did deserve credit for seeking external consultation in the years spent developing the law. He contrasted this, however, with the “highly secretive” approach taken since the final incarnation of the Anticorruption Law was drafted.
“We just want a proper dialogue and consultation,” Hang Chhaya said. “It’s constructive, it’s not in any way aimed at destabilising or overthrowing the government.”
THE Council of Ministers said Monday that the UN had been wrong to weigh in on the passage of the Kingdom’s Anticorruption Law, arguing that the body had shown a lack of respect for Cambodian sovereignty.
In a statement released by its Press and Quick Reaction Unit, the Council of Ministers said the government had spent years in consultation with the UN and other international organisations to develop the law. Widespread criticisms that the legislation was pushed through the National Assembly too quickly, the Council said, were thus unwarranted.
“The Royal Government of Cambodia, which has been democratically elected through free and fair elections, would like to take this opportunity to remind the ‘UN Country Team’ that there is a time for consultation, but there is also a time for decision,” the Council of Ministers said.
The Council added that the UN and other organisations had no legal basis on which to rest their criticisms of the law, which was passed without amendment by the National Assembly last week in two days of debate.
“No international standards require the core of the national sovereignty to seek the approval from the different organisations and civil societies, either national or international, that failed to enjoy the legitimacy directly from the Cambodian people,” the Council of Ministers said.
UN spokeswoman Margaret Lamb declined to comment.
"There is a time for consultation, but there is also a time for decision."The UN said last week that while it welcomed the passage of anticorruption legislation, it worried that observers and civil society organisations would be denied the chance to offer input and possible amendments.
“The draft Anticorruption Law should undergo a transparent and participatory consultation process to ensure that it is consistent with international standards,” the UN said, noting “with concern” the brief window between the draft law’s release and the opening of debate in the National Assembly.
The criticisms of the UN position by the Council of Ministers followed those aired last week by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which accused the UN of acting “as if it were the spokesperson of the opposition parties”.
Hang Chhaya, executive director of the Khmer Institute for Democracy, said the government did deserve credit for seeking external consultation in the years spent developing the law. He contrasted this, however, with the “highly secretive” approach taken since the final incarnation of the Anticorruption Law was drafted.
“We just want a proper dialogue and consultation,” Hang Chhaya said. “It’s constructive, it’s not in any way aimed at destabilising or overthrowing the government.”
Whatever!
ReplyDeleteTrue phony elections that is fair and free. Everyone knows that.
Hun Sen and his CPP government have been lying for so long and for so much, they dug their own whole so deep now they can't get out. Yet they continues to lie, digging he whole even deeper.
correction to 10:31PM
ReplyDeleteThrough phony election that is, NOT fair and free. Everyone knows that.
Hey! Hey! hey! If you can get away with it, why not???????
ReplyDeleteTough luck!
CPP,
ReplyDeleteKeep digging deeper and deeper whole. People will barried you in your own whole as soon as you out of power. Time will come. Lying can not last forever. The truth will prevail.
There are a lot more ethical people in this world then you CPP clans!
When your power expired, these are your choices:
1. Internationally prosecuted
2. Get kill by your master, Youn.
3. Get kill by your betray colleagues.
4. Get kill by Cambodia citizens.
10:46PM,
ReplyDeleteYou sound like one of the criminal minded.
Good rational people don't simply do bad things against their will because they can get away with it. This what make people different from animals. We have higher concious. We have higher order of thinking. We able to empathize and sympathize others....
Council of Private Party!
ReplyDeleteI support the CPP for the punching international organisations in the nose for meddling in Cambodian gov'.
ReplyDeleteThey need to clean up their own corruptions too.
WHAT all of you are insane. Have you not seen the development in Cambodia??? I guess you'd rather be digging in the mud pit and eating Ox shizt..
ReplyDeleteWake up people. Progress takes sacrafice. So stop your yaking and barking...you sound like crying babies in diapers.
Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime
ReplyDeleteMembers:
Pol Pot
Nuon Chea
Ieng Sary
Ta Mok
Khieu Samphan
Son Sen
Ieng Thearith
Kaing Kek Iev
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
Committed:
Tortures
Brutality
Executions
Massacres
Mass Murder
Genocide
Atrocities
Crimes Against Humanity
Starvations
Slavery
Force Labour
Overwork to Death
Human Abuses
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime
Members:
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
Committed:
Attempted Murders
Attempted Murder on Chea Vichea
Attempted Assassinations
Attempted Assassination on Sam Rainsy
Assassinations
Assassinated Journalists
Assassinated Political Opponents
Assassinated Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Assassinated over 80 members of Sam Rainsy Party.
"But as of today, over eighty members of my party have been assassinated. Countless others have been injured, arrested, jailed, or forced to go into hiding or into exile."
Sam Rainsy LIC 31 October 2009 - Cairo, Egypt
Executions
Executed over 100 members of FUNCINPEC Party
Murders
Murdered 3 Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Murdered Chea Vichea
Murdered Ros Sovannareth
Murdered Hy Vuthy
Murdered Journalists
Murdered Khim Sambo
Murdered Khim Sambo's son
Murdered members of Sam Rainsy Party.
Murdered activists of Sam Rainsy Party
Murdered Innocent Men
Murdered Innocent Women
Murdered Innocent Children
Killed Innocent Khmer Peoples.
Extrajudicial Execution
Grenade Attack
Terrorism
Drive by Shooting
Brutalities
Police Brutality Against Monks
Police Brutality Against Evictees
Tortures
Intimidations
Death Threats
Threatening
Human Abductions
Human Abuses
Human Rights Abuses
Human Trafficking
Drugs Trafficking
Under Age Child Sex
Corruptions
Bribery
Embezzlement
Treason
Border Encroachment, allow Vietnam to encroaching into Cambodia.
Signed away our territories to Vietnam; Koh Tral, almost half of our ocean territory oil field and others.
Illegal Arrest
Illegal Mass Evictions
Illegal Land Grabbing
Illegal Firearms
Illegal Logging
Illegal Deforestation
Illegally use of remote detonation bomb on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and other military officials were on board.
Lightning strike many airplanes, but did not fall from the sky. Lightning strike out side of airplane and discharge electricity to ground.
Source: Lightning, Discovery Channel
Illegally Sold State Properties
Illegally Removed Parliamentary Immunity of Parliament Members
Plunder National Resources
Acid Attacks
Turn Cambodia into a Lawless Country.
Oppression
Injustice
Steal Votes
Bring Foreigners from Veitnam to vote in Cambodia for Cambodian People's Party.
Use Dead people's names to vote for Cambodian People's Party.
Disqualified potential Sam Rainsy Party's voters.
Abuse the Court as a tools for CPP to send political opponents and journalists to jail.
Abuse of Power
Abuse the Laws
Abuse the National Election Committee
Abuse the National Assembly
Violate the Laws
Violate the Constitution
Violate the Paris Accords
Impunity
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Death in custody.
Under the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime, no criminals that has been committed crimes against journalists, political opponents, leaders of the Free Trade Union, innocent men, women and children have ever been brought to justice.
Western countries help Cambodia because they hope that one day Cambodian government adopts democracy and stop being bandidts but CPP members still are thieves preparing to introduce dictatorship into Cambodia, they look down on Khmers and fill up their pocket instead of promoting justice.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the one and only purpose of foreign donors is to help Cambodian live a decent life. However, corrupt officials take it for granted that they must share the funds and loans sent to them in the first place. Foreign donors have been using their people's tax money for aids and charity since the 90s, and for some times now they ignore the fact that foreign aids and charity breed corruption. The more they give, the further local officials become corrupt. In short, foreign donors spoil all corrupt officials.
ReplyDeleteCould you do me a big favor, Uncle Sam? Please don't use my tax money to feed a corrupt government, instead you can send it to help any zoo in USA.
12:45AM,
ReplyDeleteVery true! Aid provided should have stipulations and strick conditions. Forgery like Hun Sen's government should be prosecuted.
No international standards require the core of the national sovereinty to seek approval from different organisations and civil societies,either national or international,that failed to enjoy the legitimacy directly from the Cambodian people",the COUNCIL OF MINISTERS SAID.
ReplyDeletePlease stop using Cambodian people to shield your unjust ideas. Cambodians have been assisted by the UN and so many civil societies,in so many aspects in cambodians' life in reducing poverty,rights abuses by own OFFICIALS in government,social welfare,education,health...etc,that RGC takes for granted and ignored as well as manipulated their plights.
The councils ministers as claimed,ONLY serves CPP and its members on the whole.
Many cambodians know that, international communities know that, apart from those you have placed under the poverty traps and given small gifts reluctantly accept that.
This stubborness and ignorance will lead you all to failure, regardless how much that you all have and control.
Take a mirror and look at yourselve before going to bed,JUST TO SEE HOW FAT YOU ARE comparing to those you called cambodians in needs.
Neang SA
The CPP loss the first election but refused to step down and later on coup again FUNSINPEC so they could hang on to power .. is that what the CPP call free and fair election ?
ReplyDeleteTHE TRUTH FINALLY REVEAL!
ReplyDeleteI dont understand why CPP call it an "Anticorruption law" They should rename this law to the "CPP corruption protection law" that is cover and protect all CPP officails and it associates.
ReplyDeleteThat ways no one will criticize it clear, why attempt to create a token "Anticorruption law" when it not intended too?
KI and all should lobby and request for CPP to change the name of the law to the above.