Showing posts with label Former Hun Sen economic advisor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Former Hun Sen economic advisor. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Hun Sen will go to Korea for the swear in of his former economic advisor and ... to beg for more aid

Was it South Korean President Lee Myung Bak (above) who advised Prime minister Hun Sen (below) to go barefeet? Hun Sen claimed that Lee Myung Bak was his "former economic advisor"
Cambodian PM to join swearing-in ceremony of elected S Korean president

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Monday that he will lead a senior delegation to join the swearing-in ceremony of newly-elected South Korean President Lee Myung Bak.

"I will lead a senior Cambodian delegation to join the swearing-in ceremony of the newly-elected South Korean president on February 24," he told a school inauguration ceremony in Kampong Speu province.

I will take the chance to ask for more aid from the South Korean side for our country, he was quoted by national television as saying.

"The newly elected president is my former economic advisor," said Hun Sen, adding that he will invite him to visit Phnom Penh soon.

South Korea surpassed China in 2006 to become the largest investing country for Cambodia.