James O'Toole
The Phnom Penh Post
UNITED States Ambassador Carol Rodley met with Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith on Friday to discuss the massive leak of American diplomatic cables, including hundreds from the US embassy in Phnom Penh, to the website WikiLeaks.
Khieu Kanharith said in an email yesterday that the ambassador had pledged to cooperate closely with the government in the event that sensitive information is disclosed by WikiLeaks.
“The US Government won’t confirm nor deny the authenticity of any documents released by WikiLeaks but the US ambassador is ready to have a private meeting with any member of the [government] if there are any documents relating to Cambodia deemed to create confusion,” Khieu Kanharith said.
“For my part, I consider the opinion expressed by any American diplomat is not the official American administration’s stance.”
WikiLeaks claims to have more than 250,000 American foreign policy documents in its possession, including 777 diplomatic cables from the US embassy in Phnom Penh. The website has pledged to release the documents gradually over the next few months, and only a few hundred have been made public so far.
In a cable released last week, former Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew is quoted discussing the close ties between the Kingdom and China.
“Within hours, everything that is discussed in ASEAN meetings is known in Beijing, given China’s close ties with Laos, Cambodia and Burma,” the cable states, quoting Lee.
The Singaporean embassy in Phnom Penh declined to comment on the cable but condemned the WikiLeaks disclosures.
“The selective release of documents, especially when taken out of context, will only serve to sow confusion and fail to provide a complete picture of the important issues that were being discussed amongst leaders in the strictest of confidentiality,” the embassy said in an emailed statement.
10 comments:
What I want to know, were/are there extraordinary renditions conducted by the US in Cambodia?
i am so looking forward to knowing how US officials talk about the Cambodian government when it is not meant for public consumption. Obviously they are getting nervous already, so there is something to be nervous about.
700 documents will make for interesting reading and analysis
Can't access the sites to wikileaks:
www.wikileaks.com or
www.wikileaks.org
rather this is the message:
Hmm, www.wikileaks.org isn't loading right now.
The computers that run www.wikileaks.org are having some trouble. Usually this is just a temporary problem, so you might want to try again in a few minutes.
(.org)
and under .com "not currently available".
Can someone tell how we can access these documents on Cambodia?
Wikileaks is now at:
http://wikileaks.ch/
There's only one document mentioning Cambodia right now (from the US embassy in Singapore). But Wikileaks said that there are slightly over 1,000 docs from the US embassy in PPenh.
THE US afriad of it own shadow. Any plan to attack china?
the article says there are 777 cables from the US embassy in PP.
as was pointed out, the only released doc mentioning Cambodia so far came from the US embassy in Singapore.
the ones from the PP embassy should be more substantial on internal (Cambodia government) and bilateral stuff
cant wait
Hier you find hundreds of mirrors...
http://savewikileaks.net/another-wikileaks-address/
YEa, let the khmer gov know about the wrong shit they are doing in Cambodian today.
This picture shows he is putting a love spell on more young women and PM for allowing to do the puppet show again.
Don't you recorgnise that you have no more credibility as honest citizen,not to mention about being a new labelled leader.
What's laws this stupid prince studied? STUPID laws!
It is the USA responsibility,anyone does not care about these accountable Wikileaks.
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