Xinhua
Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong said Friday the closure of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' center will be postponed to mid- February next year.
Hor Namhong made the announcement at a press briefing held at the Phnom Penh International Airport upon Prime Minister Hun Sen's return from visiting China. "We asked UNHCR to close the center in (Phnom Penh) by January 1, 2011, but they have asked us to postpone the closure as refugees are still awaiting resettlement in a third country. Therefore, Prime Minister Hun Sen agreed to postpone the closure to February 15, 2011."
Currently, 76 Montagnard asylum seekers, mostly Christian ethnic minorities from Vietnam's highlands, are living in the center, and 62 of them have been granted refugee status and waiting resettlement in the third country.
Hor Namhong said that any unregistered asylum seekers would be deported to Vietnam upon the centre's closure. "Now it's the time we have to close this center because there is no war, no noticeable weapon clash in Vietnam. Instead, Vietnam is building its social and economic development rapidly, so there should be no longer refugees in Cambodia," he added.
1 comment:
Hello!
Ong HOR speaks again!.
When he speaks khmer,he speaks vietnamese khmer!.
when he speaks in English,he surely speaks vietnamese English!.
He has been a spy to Cambodia for Vietnam for 3 generations.
Good selection process from RGC.
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