Original report from Phnom Penh
13 January 2009
Prime Minister Hun Sen left Tuesday for a first-ever visit to Kuwait, in an effort to boost economic relations between the two countries.
Hun Sen flew Tuesday on a plane provided by the Middle Eastern nation and is scheduled to pay a four-day visit, accompanied by a delegation of 40 government officials and businessmen.
Cambodian officials are scheduled to sign agreements on Kuwaiti technical aid to construct irrigation systems and a hydropower project in Kampong Thom province, Foreign Minister Hor Namhong, who is also on the delegation, told reporters Tuesday before departing.
Officials will sign agreements on direct flights and road construction on some areas in the northwest of Cambodia, Hor Namhong said.
The delegation will also discuss trade, exchange, investment and rice, he said.
“We will exchange views about rice,” he said. “This year we have remaining 3 million tons of rice for export, so we could export to sell it in Kuwait and other countries in the Persian Gulf.”
Tourism Minister Thong Korn said he believed more tourists from the Middle East would be coming to Cambodia.
In 2008, about 2 percent of visitors to the kingdom come from the Middle East. Less than 1 percent came from Kuwait, he said.
The prime minister’s trip follows an August 2008 visit by Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammed al-Ahmed al-Sabah. During that visit Kuwait pledged nearly $550 million in agricultural loans in exchange for food security.
Hun Sen flew Tuesday on a plane provided by the Middle Eastern nation and is scheduled to pay a four-day visit, accompanied by a delegation of 40 government officials and businessmen.
Cambodian officials are scheduled to sign agreements on Kuwaiti technical aid to construct irrigation systems and a hydropower project in Kampong Thom province, Foreign Minister Hor Namhong, who is also on the delegation, told reporters Tuesday before departing.
Officials will sign agreements on direct flights and road construction on some areas in the northwest of Cambodia, Hor Namhong said.
The delegation will also discuss trade, exchange, investment and rice, he said.
“We will exchange views about rice,” he said. “This year we have remaining 3 million tons of rice for export, so we could export to sell it in Kuwait and other countries in the Persian Gulf.”
Tourism Minister Thong Korn said he believed more tourists from the Middle East would be coming to Cambodia.
In 2008, about 2 percent of visitors to the kingdom come from the Middle East. Less than 1 percent came from Kuwait, he said.
The prime minister’s trip follows an August 2008 visit by Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammed al-Ahmed al-Sabah. During that visit Kuwait pledged nearly $550 million in agricultural loans in exchange for food security.
11 comments:
Haahahhahhaha Kuwait you are not siding with USA?Kuwait better stay out of this communist ill breed Hun Sen are not your friend ,they are just the communist that oppressing Cambodian people everyday for it greedy power.
i'm glad kuwait, qatar and other oil-rich nations see and think of cambodia differently and saw the huge business and diplomatic potential in cambodia. welcome to cambodia, my friends. seeing is believeing, isn't? god bless cambodia.
OMAK PROSITHI SOURS<
TOEUB PREAH ISVARAK CHEA KRU PROEU ANH OY DAK BANDASA MOEUNG HUN SEN, HORNG BUN RANY, MOEUNG SNORODOM SIHANOUK,MI HORNG MONIQUE< POURK AH KH'BOT CHEAT KHMER TAING OS MEAN
MOEUNG CHEA SIM, MOEUNG PEN SOVANN,
MOEUNG NORODOM RANARITRH OY AH MOEUNG TAING OS SLAB TAI HORNG, RUNTEAS BANH, KROLAB LARN,TLAK YONHOS.
OMAK SITHI S'VAHAK CHO OY MOEUNG TAING OS TOTOURL PEAK BANDASA ANH,
OMA SITHI S'VA HAYAK
Hinduism,Buddhism,Catholicism,Islam,Protestantism,Judaism and many more religions.
All religions taught us how to be humble and to be kind to each other and one day will find the way back HOME.(The lips of the righteous will feed many people,But the fools will die for lack of wisdom)
May God bless the Kingdom of Cambodia!!
May his plan crash in the Ariabia sea!!!!!
4:01 AM
Your wish is granted!
I hope his plan will crash some where sonn
hey, be careful with your wish because the FBI don't like terrorist and they will hunt down the terrorist that wish the plane to crash or something! in the court of law, it's like yelling fire in a crowded theater; you don't wish that kind of thought on anybody. people like you need to get psychiatric treatment or something because you sound mad and angry, thus, only a good therapeutic treatment can help your condition!
4:24AM find your mother because the lightning will strike her husband in the noon time ib Arabia!!!!
It is a rare case, dude!!! one in million year and Ah Xen will get it!
4:01, 4:05,
And may you and your family die in this kind of accident too. God will make this happen soon.
Dear 4:24AM and dear 8:55AM,
Have you thought before you say or not?
People like you should die too, because you never knew about hun sen and sihanuk and co...
When you survived in all of these time you would remeber wht a herrible it was and what do they do today again khmer people. Both accept just youn people but not khmer and they still continue to destroy Cambodia.
I like all of people who did good for mankid but not these stupi sihanuk, hun sen and co.
Have you seen what sihanuk and hun sen did for us expect his threating againt khmer people?
Take car and think before you say!
Love
Khmer
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