LI President and Dutch Foreign Minister Meet with Sam Rainsy

Source: http://www.liberal-international.org

Cambodia's Opposition leader Sam Rainsy launched a tour to the European capitals to discuss with the top liberals in government the findings of the latest report of the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Cambodia. In follow up to the meetings with LI SG Emil Kirjas in London, Sam Rainsy visited The Netherlands and had meetings with both Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal (VVD, LI Full member) and LI President Hans van Baalen MEP (VVD). Minister Rosenthal acknowledged that The Netherlands, having signed the Paris Peace Agreements, has a special role to play to promote free and fair elections in Cambodia. Hans van Baalen, in a separate meeting with Sam Rainsy and his wife Saumura Tioulong MP, stated that he will “raise support for free and fair elections in Cambodia in both the European Parliament and Liberal International'. The UN Report highlights the exiled situation of Sam Rainsy and requests “a political solution to enable him, as the leader of the opposition, to play a full role in Cambodian politics.”

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EU will send election observers to Cambodia

Tuesday, March 03, 2008
Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Socheata

Eneko Landaburu, Director General of the European Commission, declared that the EU plans to send over a group of about 200 observers to participate in the observation of the upcoming 27 July 2008 general election. During a press conference given in Phnom Penh, Eneko Landaburu said that the EU sent election observers to 15 countries at the beginning of this year, for example, on 18 February 2008, the EU sent 845 observers to Pakistan to participate in the observation of the MP election in this country. He said that, in the upcoming election in Cambodia, the EU plans to send about 200 observers to follow up on the election for MPs. In response to the question as to whether, after the election, the EU could consider the election as being free and fair or not, Enekolene Daburu said that the election observers do not provide an evaluation on the election, this issue is up to the government which organizes the election.