Sunday, July 11, 2010

Cambodia to host large scale military exercise next week

July 11, 2010
Xinhua

As planned, Cambodia will conduct first ever large scale military exercise next week, a part of the United Nations Peacekeeping framework for strengthening peace and security.

Chhum Socheat, spokesman of the Ministry of National Defense said Saturday that the military exercise will be conducted on July 17 through July 30 with participations of 26 countries and more than 1,000 forces.

Of those forces, the largest number will be coming from Cambodia as a host country and from the United States, the co-organizer of the exercise.

The other participating countries, the majority of which are the members of the United Nations include France, Indonesia, the Philippines, Australia, India, Italy, Germany, Japan, Mongolia and the United Kingdom among others.

According to the plan, Chhum Socheat said the military exercise which is part of the Global Peace Operations Initiatives (GPOI), a UN-US peacekeeping-training program will be conducted in two separate forms with one to be organized in Kompong Speu province, about 50 kilometers from Phnom Penh, and that will be a field exercise.

The second of its kind will be conducted in Phnom Penh as part of the far command from headquarters.

The military exercise in Cambodia will be called as "Angkor Sentinel 2010".

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

If that's so important Hun Sen will show up. Then you can guess how much swine flu has gotten the best of him.

Anonymous said...

You'll never know, he may be busy getting his generals ready for the event...

No flu will last that long if it didn't kill you already.

Anonymous said...

I can't believe the US will get involved even they knew that most of CRA , especially the tank units have been abused their power against innocent people.

Anonymous said...

that what how a stupit armerican it's and by the way all cambodian that living in US they are seem sleeping no react at all the most importamce all cambodian people must be react fast specially cambodia media ( voa,rfa...have to be questioning to armerian government that the way so rememmber one of stupit armerican congrasment went to cambodia to celebation Jan 7 2010 with HUN SEN is the day VIETNAME INVATION CAMBODIA you can see how stupit armerican is

Anonymous said...

So how smart are you, fucker 11:59. Without Americans, you are still a beggar in Angkor Wat to let the foreign tourists bang your dirty ass. You fuck up species

Anonymous said...

China hits a drum, Cambodian governement danses, USA hits another drum, Cambodian governement danses again..
Don't make a mistake, if it is the case you pay the price..