Cambodia is behind in demining schedule but our "Great Dek Cho Leader" Hun Sen wants to send more deminers overseas

Hun Sen wants to send Cambodian deminers to other countries

06-11-2007
By Leang Delux
Cambodge Soir
Translated from French by Luc Sâr

The prime minister wishes to see Cambodian deminers fulfilling a greater number of missions in the world, but he also raised the foreign language barrier these deminers are now facing with.

In a speech for the opening of the National Congress for the updating of the demining strategy in Cambodia, on Tuesday 06 November, Prime minister Hun Sen indicated that he was thinking of sending Cambodian deminers, under the UN mandate, to other countries beyond Sudan where they are already present. “But we have a problem. It’s the foreign languages handicap. The deminers do not speak English or French,” Hun Sen noted. To him, “Cambodia is a poor country, but it has a heart.” Proud of his country, Hun Sen affirmed that “Cambodia, under the UN banner, can participate in missions and offer its services, in particular, in the demining sector, in construction, and in health.” A group of 139 Cambodian deminers is currently operating in Sudan, taking over from a first group of 135 people, a few months back. The first group cleaned up 44-hectare of minefields during a one-year mission, it also destroyed 2,000 anti-personal landmines and 200 anti-tank landmines.

Another Karl Marx U becomes the Cambodian UN rep

Representative Presents Credentials to UN

Nuch Sarita, VOA Khmer
Original report from Washington
13/04/2007

Sea Kosal, a former diplomat to the US, presented his credentials April 9 to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to become Cambodia's permanent representative to the world body. Publish

Sea Kosal, 42, served as the Minister Counsellor and Deputy Chief of Mission for the Cambdodian Embassy in Washington from 2003 to 2005, a UN statement said.

He began his career with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1993 and was also a lecturer in international law at the Faculty of Law and Economics and the Royal School of Adminstration in Phnom Penh, the statement said.

Sea Kosal earned a bachelor's of law at the Karl Marx University in 1988 and his master's in law in East Germany in 1989, the statement said.