Source: Xinhua
PHNOM PENH, Oct. 19 — Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra will visit Cambodia on Friday afternoon to pay her last tributes to late King-Father Norodom Sihanouk, according to a media statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “She will lead a high delegation to pay last respects to the King-Father at 3:30 pm on Oct. 19 at the capital’s Royal Palace,” the statement said.
It added that after the ceremony, Yingluck will hold a meeting with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen at the Peace Palace.
Besides Yingluck, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and Lao Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong will also pay their last tributes to the late King-Father this Friday afternoon at the Royal Palace.
The most revered ex-King Norodom Sihanouk died of illness at the age of 90 in Beijing last Monday and his body was transported to Phnom Penh by Air China jumbo jet Wednesday afternoon. Hundreds of thousands of mourners tearfully welcomed the return of his body.
The country announced a week-long mourning period from Oct. 17 to 23, and the body of the King-Father will be exhibited for at least three months at the Royal Palace before being cremated.
Born on Oct. 31, 1922, Sihanouk reigned the country from 1941 to 1955 and again from 1993 until his voluntary abdication on Oct. 7, 2004 in favor of his son, the current King Norodom Sihamoni.
He was the king who led the country to gain independence from France in 1953. He was a presence through decades of political and social turmoil in Cambodia, despite long periods of exile overseas.
He suffered from various forms of cancer, diabetes and hypertension and had been treated by Chinese doctors in Beijing for years before his death.
4 comments:
Burn his body over there (China). Don't bring back to Cambodia. He was a Traitor to Khmer people. The Khmer people have suffered enough by him. He did not respect even his own mother. He was an evil king . He should be alive until he can serve his punishement in the Khmer Rouge trail. Please don't forget he was the person who killed Lok Protean Sam Rainsy's father.
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Condolence for Sihanouk's passing. Sihanouk contributed many good things to Cambodia and to China.
-1953 Independence from France
-1970 to 1975 His work a liaison between Chou En Lay an Kissinger leading to full recognization of China by the USA.
-1989 His help to brokage the Paris Peace Treaty for peace in Cambodia.
His bad moment was his association with the Khmer Rouge.
YINGLUK, if SIHANOU about your age, you just can't get a way from him.....you're so pretty.
12:11 PM
Do you know why? Because nobody cares about what you said!
PS: Go kill yourself
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