លោក សម រង្ស៊ី ជួប​ពិភាក្សា​ជាមួយ​រដ្ឋមន្ត្រី​ការ​បរទេស​ឥណ្ឌូនេស៊ី - Opposition Leader Sam Rainsy met with Marty Natalegawa

 

លោក សម រង្ស៊ី ប្រធាន​គណបក្ស​ប្រឆាំង និង​ជា​ប្រធាន​ចលនា​សង្គ្រោះ​ជាតិ បាន​ជួប​ពិភាក្សា​ជាមួយ​រដ្ឋមន្ត្រី​ការ​បរទេស​ឥណ្ឌូនេស៊ី លោក ម៉ាទី ណាតាឡេហ្គាវ៉ា (Marty Natalegawa) កាល​ពី​ថ្ងៃ​ព្រហស្បតិ៍ ទី១៣ ខែ​កញ្ញា នៅ​ទីស្ដីការ​ក្រសួង​ការ​បរទេស​ឥណ្ឌូនេស៊ី ក្នុង​ក្រុង​ហ្សាកាតា (Jakarta)។

2012-09-15
ដោយ ម៉ៅ សុធានី
Radio Free Asia

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លោក សម រង្ស៊ី ត្រូវ​បាន​សភា​ឥណ្ឌូនេស៊ី អញ្ជើញ​លោក​ឲ្យ​ចូល​រួម​ក្នុង​កិច្ច​ពិភាក្សា​មួយ​ចំនួន​ជាមួយ​សមាជិក​តំណាង​រាស្ត្រ​ខ្លះ នៃ​គណបក្ស​ផ្សេងៗ​គ្នា​ក្នុង​សភា​ឥណ្ឌូនេស៊ី ផង​ដែរ។

លោក សម រង្ស៊ី ប្រធាន​គណបក្ស​សង្គ្រោះ​ជាតិ កាល​ពី​ថ្ងៃ​សុក្រ ទី​១៤ កញ្ញា មាន​ប្រសាសន៍​តាម​ទូរស័ព្ទ​ពី​ទីក្រុង​ហ្សាកាតា ថា ជំនួប​ពិភាក្សា​រវាង​លោក ជាមួយ​លោក ម៉ាទី ណាតាឡេហ្គាវ៉ា កាល​ពី​ថ្ងៃ​ទី​១៣ ខែ​កញ្ញា បាន​ផ្ដោត​សំខាន់​លើ​ស្ថានការណ៍​នៅ​កម្ពុជា និង​នៅ​តំបន់​អាស៊ី។ លោក​ថា រដ្ឋមន្ត្រី​ការ​បរទេស​ឥណ្ឌូនេស៊ី មាន​ជំហរ​ដូច​លោក​ដែរ គឺ​ចង់​ពង្រឹង​លទ្ធិប្រជាធិបតេយ្យ​នៅ​ក្នុង​ប្រទេស​ទាំង​១០ ដែល​ជា​សមាជិក​អាស៊ាន៖ «គាត់​មិន​មែន​និយាយ​ពី​រឿង​គណបក្ស​ទេ គាត់​និយាយ​អំពី​គោលការណ៍ គឺ​គាត់​គាំទ្រ​គោលការណ៍​ឲ្យ​មាន​ទំនាក់​ទំនង​ល្អ​ជាមួយ​នឹង​ប្រទេស​កម្ពុជា គឺ​មាន​ន័យ​ថា មិន​មែន​តែ​ជាមួយ​រដ្ឋាភិបាល​ទេ គឺ​ជាមួយ​តំណាង​រាស្ត្រ ជាមួយ​អង្គការ​ក្រៅ​រដ្ឋាភិបាល។ គាត់​យល់​ឃើញ​ថា រដ្ឋាភិបាល​ទាក់​ទង​គ្នា​បាន​ល្អ​ហើយ តែ​តំណាង​រាស្ត្រ និង​តំណាង​រាស្ត្រ អង្គការ​សង្គម​ស៊ីវិល ជាមួយ​តំណាង​ប្រជាពលរដ្ឋ ត្រូវ​តែ​ទាក់​ទង​គ្នា ដើម្បី​ពង្រឹង​មិត្តភាព នៃ​ប្រទេស​ទាំង​ពីរ។ ធ្វើ​បែប​នេះ គឺ​អាច​យក​គំរូ​ល្អ​ពី​ប្រទេស​ដែល​គេ​បាន​អនុវត្ត​លទ្ធិប្រជាធិបតេយ្យ​យ៉ាង​រឹងមាំ ដូច​ជា​ប្រទេស​ឥណ្ឌូនេស៊ី»។ លោក សម រង្ស៊ី បាន​ជួប​ពិភាក្សា​ជាមួយ​តំណាង​រាស្ត្រ​ឥណ្ឌូនេស៊ី មួយ​ចំនួន​ទៀត ពី​គណបក្ស​ផ្សេងៗ​នៅ​ក្នុង​សភា​ឥណ្ឌូនេស៊ី កាល​ពី​ថ្ងៃ​សុក្រ។

Asean energy ministers agree to enhance cooperation

Thursday, September 13, 2012
Sun Star (The Philippines)

PHNOM PENH (PNA) -- The 30th Asean Ministers on Energy Meeting was wrapped up on Wednesday evening, agreeing to strengthen the bloc's efforts in addressing climate change and enhancing Asean energy cooperation towards a greener Asean energy sector and low-carbon economy, according to a joint statement released after the meeting.

The meeting was chaired by Cambodian Minister of Industry, Mines and Energy Suy Sem and was participated by all Asean ministers on energy as well as Asean Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan, said the statement.

To build a green energy region, the role of clean energy technologies is vital. In this regard, the ministers welcomed the inclusion of a dedicated chapter on Asean in the International Energy Agency (IEA) publication "Energy Technology Perspectives 2012" as part of the Clean Technology Development project that Asean is pursuing with the IEA, it said.

ASEAN Trade Pact Starts Later Than Many Might Think

September 12, 2012
By James Hookway
The Wall Street Journal

Countries across Southeast Asia are already building up to the launch of the region’s free trade zone in 2015 with television specials and other events to publicize the approach of the trade pact, but it has never been exactly clear when it is supposed to take effect—until now.

Instead of January 1, as many observers were assuming, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan Wednesday said the target date is in fact Dec. 31 2015, meaning that the trade pact doesn’t really start until a couple of days into 2016.

Asean officials say an official launch date has never been specified, and the trade group has in any case been working towards the launch of the Asean Economic Community, or AEC, through a series of tariff cuts. “There was never an agreed, exact date to ‘when’ in 2015 we should all work towards—should it be 1st of January? Mid-year? Or year-end 2015,” Mr. Surin said after meeting regional energy ministers in Cambodia Asean’s economic ministers, he said, agreed on Dec. 31.

Insight: Asean Front & Center

From left to right, Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa joins Kan Pharidh, a permanent representative of Cambodia, and Surin Pitsuwan, the secretary general of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, to release balloons at the 45th Asean Day ceremony in Jakarta on Aug. 8, 2012. (AFP Photo/ Bay Ismoyo)

A. Lin Neumann | September 07, 2012

Jakarta Globe

It can still seem odd to think about, but Asean really matters these days. For much of its 45-year history, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations was an alliance that conjured images of sheer boredom and empty platitudes.

Begun in 1967, as communist armies were nearing victory in Indochina, Asean started as an alliance of right-wing states that were part of a broad US-backed anti-communist front. The five original members — Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand — were virtually all authoritarian states (the Philippines became a dictatorship in 1972).

The bloc has grown, of course, and new members have been added. There are now three fairly open democracies — Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand — while the rest are still basically authoritarian. But much has been accomplished. Territorial tensions among members states have largely been laid to rest, trade and investment within the bloc have grown markedly and great steps have been taken toward a unified economic community, which is to be in place by 2015.

Asean Rights Declaration Below Standard, Advocates Say

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, left, speaks with ASEAN Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan, Jakarta, Sept. 4, 2012.

Supporters of the declaration say it is necessary to help Asean states have a norm for human rights.

06 September 2012

Sok Khemara, VOA Khmer

WASHINGTON DC - Asean leaders are hoping to adopt a declaration of human rights when they meet in Phnom Penh in November, but rights workers in Southeast Asia say the draft so far is insufficient and does little to advance the notion of human rights in the region.

Asean representatives say the declaration will provide a human rights standard for the 10 countries within the group. An Asean committee has been quietly worked on the declaration, which provides provisions that “must be considered in the regional and national context,” according to a draft obtained by VOA Khmer. Rights advocates say that kind of language is too watered down for the declaration to be effective.

“The fact that the commission has been so secretive about the draft may be explained by some of our concerns that a draft would contain the provisions that are below the international standard,” said Shiwei Ye, a Bangkok-based representative of the International Federation of Human Rights. The draft does not include protection against discrimination against sexual orientation, gender identity and indigenous rights, he said.

Cambodia Says No Strings Attached in Recent Chinese Aid

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, right, with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen during their meeting in China on Sept. 2. (Associated Press)

September 6, 2012
By Patrick Barta
The Wall Street Journal

China has done a lot to support Cambodia over the years with millions of dollars in aid, loans and investment. But after reports this week that China has pledged another $500 million in soft loans and grants—and publicly thanked Cambodia for its support in Southeast Asia—Cambodian officials want to be sure no one suspects the little country is falling too much under China’s sway.

Cheam Yeap, chairman of the Commission on Economy, Finance, Banking and Audit at the Cambodian National Assembly, said China’s loans have nothing to do with Cambodia’s recent support for China in disputes involving the South China Sea, parts of which are claimed by China and several Southeast Asian states. That backing includes a now-famous episode in July when members of the Association of Southeast Asian nations failed to reach a consensus on how to resolve conflicts in the sea at their latest summit in Phnom Penh, failing even to issue their customary joint communiqué at the end.

Representatives from the Philippines and other nations blamed Cambodia for resisting any agreement that would embarrass China, which has long indicated its desire to negotiate settlements in the South China Sea on a bilateral basis, away from multilateral forums.

The latest loans are just “encouragement from China’s premier Wen Jiabao” Mr. Cheam Yeap said, adding that China doesn’t ask for anything in return. Rather, China just “sees that Cambodia is in need for [money] to develop the country,” he said. “This is not the first time that China has provided concessional loans to Cambodia.”

US, China jockey for influence with ASEAN [-The US thanks Indonesia rather than Hun Xen]

Wed, September 05 2012
Bagus BT Saragih, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

As US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrapped up her mission in Jakarta to enhance ties with the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and bolster the grouping’s role in the South China Sea spat, China pledged to give Cambodia US$500 million in loans and grants as a token of gratitude for Phnom Penh’s move in accommodating the Asian superpower’s interests in the region.

Clinton concluded her state visit to Indonesia by making a courtesy call on President Susilo Bambang Yu-dhoyono and paying a visit to ASEAN headquarters in South Jakarta.

In her meeting with Yudhoyono, Clinton discussed the South China Sea issue as well as Indonesia’s key role in ASEAN toward producing a peaceful resolution with China regarding the conflicting territorial claims.

“On the latest developments in the South China Sea, Secretary of State Clinton expressed the US’ appreciation for Indonesia’s role, particularly having managed to retain ASEAN unity. Indonesia and the US have agreed to push for a code of conduct within the zone, particularly ahead of the ASEAN and East Asia summits in Phnom Penh in November,” Marty, who accompanied Yudhoyono at the meeting, told a press conference at the Presidential Office on Tuesday.

China pledges to consolidate ties with Cambodia - 洪森同志，吃我的便便

Chinese premier Wen Jiabao (R) shakes hand with Prime Minister of Cambodia Hun Sen in Urumqi, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, September 2, 2012. Photo: Xinhua

Xinhua | 2012-9-2

He voiced appreciation for Cambodia ... for its important role in maintaining the overall situation of friendly relations between China and the ASEAN.

Chinese premier Wen Jiabao on Sunday pledged to consolidate China's traditional friendly relations with Cambodia and promote cooperation between the two countries.

The pledge was made by Wen in a meeting with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on the sidelines of the second China-Eurasia Expo, being held in Urumqi of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwest China.

"China and Cambodia are intimate neighbors, whose relationship has withstood the test of time and practice," according to Wen.

He said China was ready to consolidate their friendly ties and deepen cooperation in such areas as transportation infrastructure, agriculture and health.

US eyes 'explosive' trade growth with Asean

August 31, 2012
Agence France-Presse

Washington's top trade official on Thursday said he saw "explosive" growth opportunities within Southeast Asia, as the US pushed on with a drive to deepen ties with the dynamic region. US trade representative Ron Kirk spoke of mutually beneficial opportunities as he met with economic ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) in the Cambodian tourist hub of Siem Reap.

"We do think that there is explosive room for growth in the trade and investment relationship," he said. The 10-member Asean bloc is the United States' fourth-largest trading partner. Trade between the two topped $198 billion in 2011, up from $186 billion the year before, according to Asean data.

Kirk is the highest ranking US official to attend the regional trade gathering in recent years, sending what observers described as "a strong signal" to Asean leaders that Washington is committed to its renewed focus on Asia as it seeks to counter Chinese influence in the region. "For the United States, bolstering trade ties with Asean is beneficial not only to US businesses; it also contributes to the country's strategic rebalance to the Asia Pacific," researchers from the US-based Center for Strategic and International Studies said in a briefing note this week.

China, Asean pledge to boost trade ties

Thursday, August 30, 2012
Agencies

SIEM REAP (Cambodia) China and Southeast Asian nations pledged on Wednesday to strive for closer economic ties, setting aside regional tensions over a territorial row in the resource-rich South China Sea.

Trade between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) jumped to over $200 billion in the first seven months of 2012, up 9 per cent year-on-year, Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming said during a meeting with regional economic ministers in the Cambodian tourist hub of Siem Reap.

The business relationship between Asean and China was ‘particularly important’ amid global economic gloom, he said, adding that both sides have ‘a solid basis for cooperation’ and “bright prospects”.

Sea row set aside as China, ASEAN seek trade boost

29 August 2012
By Michelle Fitzpatrick (AFP)

SIEM REAP, Cambodia — China and Southeast Asian nations pledged Wednesday to strive for closer economic ties, setting aside regional tensions over a territorial row in the resource-rich South China Sea.

Trade between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) jumped to over $200 billion in the first seven months of 2012, up nine percent year-on-year, Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming said during a meeting with regional economic ministers in the Cambodian tourist hub of Siem Reap.

The business relationship between ASEAN and China was "particularly important" amid global economic gloom, he said, adding that both sides have "a solid basis for cooperation" and "bright prospects".

Travel agents make bookings for tourists at Keness Travel Co Ltd in Phnom Penh last week. Photograph: Pha Lina/Phnom Penh Post

Monday, 27 August 2012
Justine Drennan
The Phnom Penh Post

The vision regional leaders have for an ASEAN Economic Community by 2015 may become clearer after this week’s Economic Ministers meeting in Siem Reap, but not everyone has a rose-coloured view of what such integration might mean for Cambodia.

“My peers are really concerned that other countries have many more skills and higher study levels,” National Institute of Business student Chan Kakada, 22, said yesterday, ahead of Prime Minister Hun Sen officially opening the meeting today.

Students who have not mastered the English language also fear employment opportunities will fade in the face of stiffer competition for English skills, Kakada, who hopes to one day open her own travel agency, said.

Rich-poor gap hinders Asean integration

Tuesday August 28, 2012
AFP

PHNOM PENH: South-East Asian nations must redouble efforts to bridge development gaps which threaten the region’s efforts to create an EU-style single market, Cambodia’s prime minister said.

Building an Asean economic community by 2015 is the “top priority”, Hun Sen said as he opened the annual meeting of Asean economic ministers in the Cambodian tourist hub of Siem Reap.

Emulating the European Union’s example, Asean wants to establish a single market and manufacturing base of about 600 million people – a goal that has been spurred by intensifying competition from China and India.

ASEAN struggles to cope with rival claims in the South China Sea

Protesters carrying China’s flag take part in a demonstration against Japan’s claims in the East China Sea. (Tyrone Siu/Reuters)

By Andrew Higgins, Monday, August 27, 2012
The Washington Post

SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA — Thrown off balance by a cacophony of claims in the South China Sea, Southeast Asia is struggling to cope with the “big and heavy” presence of China and the United States in the region and needs to face up to growing security and political challenges, the secretary general of a regional group said in an interview.

Surin Pitsuwan was speaking Monday after the start of a meeting of economic ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in the Cambodian town of Siem Reap. It was the first major gathering of regional officials since an acrimonious conclave last month that highlighted deep divisions created by China’s increasingly assertive territorial claims in the South China Sea and rhetorical blasts about the waterway from Beijing and Washington.

At the earlier meeting, in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, foreign ministers could not agree on the wording of a final communique for the first time since the regional association’s founding in 1967.

Pitsuwan, Thailand’s former foreign minister and head of ASEAN’s secretariat since 2008, said in an interview that he was surprised by the breakdown in Phnom Penh, where the group’s customary low-key pursuit of compromise gave way to testy deadlock amid complaints of microphones being abruptly disconnected and allegations of backstage meddling by China.

Obama's chief trade advisor to visit Cambodia, meet ASEAN ministers

Ron Kirk

August 20, 2012

PHNOM PENH (Xinhua) - The United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk, President Obama's Chief Trade Advisor, will be visiting Cambodia's Siem Reap province on Aug. 30-31 to participate in the 44th ASEAN Economic Ministers' meetings and the ASEAN-US Business Summit, according to a press release from the US Embassy in Cambodia on Monday.

"The ten ASEAN countries are key economic and strategic partners for the United States, and Ambassador Kirk's visit to Cambodia will demonstrate the United States' support for ASEAN integration and desire to deepen economic engagement with the region, as well as highlight broader US goals for economic relations in the Asia-Pacific," said the press release.

Kirk's schedule will include a meeting of the ASEAN-US Trade and Investment Framework Arrangement (TIFA) Council, an informal meeting of the East Asia Summit Economic Ministers, and the first ever ASEAN-US Business Summit.

ASEAN in crisis: Divided we stagger [-Nobody trust Cambodia, the ASEAN chairman, to resolve this crisis?]

Can Indonesia heal the deepening rifts in South-East Asia?

Aug 18th 2012

The Economist

JAKARTA, PHNOM PENH AND SINGAPORE

FOR decades the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) has led a largely blameless existence, untroubled by the glare of publicity as it gently sought to bring coherence to a region of enormous political and economic differences. Not for ASEAN the highs and calamitous lows of, for example, the European Union. All that has now suddenly changed. On its 45th birthday newspapers and blogs are at last paying ASEAN plenty of attention, though marked more by despair than praise. Some even question its very survival.

The cause of the furore is the widening division in the ten-member grouping over China’s maritime claims in the South China Sea. The division was laid bare publicly at a meeting last month of ASEAN foreign ministers in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh. For the first time in its history ASEAN failed to issue a joint communiqué. Its members could not agree on what to say about China. Broadly, those members with claims in the South China Sea themselves—Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei, supported by Singapore and Thailand—want ASEAN to register serious concerns over what they see as China’s belligerent actions to enforce its claims in the waters of the South China Sea and over the Spratly, Paracel and other islands and atolls. However, non-claimants, mainly Cambodia supported by Laos and perhaps Myanmar, are loth to alienate China. They go along with China’s insistence on dealing with the issue with each country in turn. This year Cambodia holds the rotating chair of ASEAN.

Right after the Phnom Penh fiasco, Indonesia’s foreign minister, Marty Natalegawa, in a vigorous exercise in diplomacy, tried hard to paper over the cracks. Since then, however, there has been no let-up in the unASEAN-like public rowing. Last week the Philippine government sent the Cambodian ambassador packing. He had accused the Philippines and Vietnam of playing “dirty politics” in their push to put the South China Sea on ASEAN’s agenda. The regional press is full of articles and letters lambasting Cambodia’s stance.

A ship divided, with rough seas ahead

Aug 15, 2012
By Yang Razali Kassim
Today Online

On the 45th anniversary of ASEAN last week, Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa expressed optimism that a regional code of conduct to govern behaviour in the South China Sea would be ready by year-end.

In doing so, he signalled ASEAN's shift to a new and more active phase to resolve the territorial disputes in the South China Sea by pushing for an early adoption of the long-stalled Code of Conduct (CoC).

Dr Natalegawa's confidence followed his success in securing an ASEAN consensus on a six-point statement of principles on the South China Sea late last month after it failed to issue a joint communique at the group's annual meeting in Phnom Penh.

Cambodia would need to focus on repairing the fissures in ASEAN so that it can host a credible second summit in November.

Beijing Denies Creating Rifts over S. China Sea

Tuesday, 14 August 2012
VOA News

China is denying that it is attempting to create discord within the ASEAN regional bloc in an attempt to exert more influence in disputed areas of the energy-rich South China Sea.

Some observers say Beijing does not want the 10-member Southeast Asian grouping to unify on the matter because China would rather deal with its much weaker rival claimants separately.

China's response

But an article in China's official Xinhua news agency dismissed the allegations, calling them Western attempts to stoke "mistrust and enmity between China and its close neighbors."

​The accusations intensified last month when ASEAN failed to move ahead on the South China Sea issue at a regional summit in Cambodia. The group failed to produce a joint statement for the first time in its 45-year history, an impasse that was widely attributed to Chinese political pressure.

One Dispute Does Not Define Asean, China Ties

Phua Mei Pin - Straits Times | August 14, 2012

Singapore - Disputes between China and some Asean member countries over territories in the South China Sea do not define relations between Asean and China, said Singapore's Foreign Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam, Monday.

He also said it was in both their interests to strengthen cooperation, citing in particular the massive trade between them.

"The (territorial) claims are not the totality of Asean-China interactions, simply one part of many," he said.

China, for instance, is Asean's top trading partner, with total trade reaching US$230 billion in 2010. At the same time, Asean is China's third largest trading partner, he noted.

"It is clearly in Asean's and China's interests to maintain and strengthen cooperation for mutual benefit," he said in Parliament.

He was replying to questions about the regional grouping's unprecedented failure last month to issue a joint communique after the 45th Asean Ministerial Meeting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Analysis: China's sway over Cambodia tests Southeast Asian unity

Sunday, 12 Aug 2012

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Students in their twenties sit behind old wooden desks in Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh, scribbling away as a teacher barks out phrases in a foreign language above the roar of motorcycles outside.

Unlike in most other countries in the region, the students at this private language school and others nearby are not learning English -- it's Chinese.

Along the street, signs with golden Chinese letters on newly painted red-and-yellow buildings offer cheap crash courses in Mandarin.

"Before, people came to this area to study English but now it's Chinese," said Gua Fa, a teacher and manager of the Ming Fa Chinese School. "The students all want to be tour guides, Chinese translators, or work in banks and restaurants."

It's another sign of China's growing influence in Cambodia, something that is upsetting the unity of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).