Day: September 12, 2021

Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, attended as a keynote speaker the “7th World Rally of Hope: Think-Tank 2022”, organised on Sept. 12 by the Universal Peace Federation via videoconference.
The event takes place this year under the theme “Peace in the Asia-Pacific”.
“As a country placing priceless value upon peace, Cambodia highly appreciates the organisation of this rally to strengthen the culture of peace and mutual trust under the framework of international cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region,” said the Cambodian Premier in his address.
Other keynote speakers include H.E. José Manuel Barroso, the 11th President of the European Commission and the 115th Prime Minister of Portugal; H.E. Donald Trumps, the U.S.’45th President; H.E. H.D. Deve Gowda, the 11th Prime Minister of India; H.E. Ms. Maria Gloria Arroyo, the 14th President of the Philippines; H.E. Anthony Thomas Aquinas Carmona, the 5th President of Trinidad and Tobago; Nataša Mićić, Acting President of Serbia from 2002 to 2004, and so on.
On the occasion, Samdech Techo Hun Sen was awarded with a World Summit Peace Medal.
According to Business Wire, inaugurated in 2020, the Rally of Hope is a series of live-streamed online productions using advanced augmented reality technology to connect millions of global viewers. Featuring prominent world leaders and captivating entertainment, the Rally of Hope is uplifting, actionable and faith-based.
This new and unique programme empowers the ordinary citizen who seeks meaningful change in their personal life, family, community, and even globally, by participating in a movement which transcends political, religious, racial, and ideological boundaries.
Previous Rallies of Hope have provided a platform for top experts to speak about the complex issues facing our planet, including: climate change, geopolitical hotspots, challenges of the coronavirus pandemic, honoring veterans of the Korean War on its 70th anniversary, the role of faith in peacebuilding, and much more.

Source: Agency Kampuchea Press

Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, has laid stress on the “national ownership”, saying that is the key to success and sustained peace.
“[…] peace and nation-building can only be achieved by local stakeholders in the conflicting-country. Other countries cannot perform the roles of those stakeholders in achieving these objectives. In this regard, I would like to emphasise that ‘national ownership’ is the key to success and sustained peace. In other words, other countries cannot transplant political value and system upon any country, as these fundamentals need to be indigenously developed corresponding to the political, economic, social and cultural contexts of each individual country,” he said in his keynote address at the “7th World Rally of Hope: Think-Tank 2022”, organised by the Universal Peace Federation on Sept. 12 via videoconference under the theme “Peace in the Asia-Pacific”.
At present, he added, one geo-political event in the region that has attracted a great deal of international attentions is the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and the total take-over of Kabul by the Taliban. This event is a grim and bitter reminder of what happened in Cambodia on April 17, 1975, when the Khmer Rouge took over Phnom Penh which was marked with utmost grief. That Cambodia and the Cambodian people remember the tragedy and are determined to preventing such a similar event from happening again.
Clearly, geo-political landscape in the Asia-Pacific region is fast-changing with the global power shifts and geo-political rivalries getting more complex and delicate with utmost dangers, Samdech Techo Hun Sen said, continuing that unfortunately, to some extent, geopolitical fault lines have been re-drawn, which could render the tendencies for atypical disruptions, i.e. small states are being under mounting pressure to choose sides against their will and interest
“In fact, Cambodia is an example of a model for others to draw experiences from. Our full peace has been built from the participation of all relevant parties in the country. I would like to emphasise that in the early 1990s, Cambodia could not achieve the full peace even after the international community spent about US$ 2 billion. The war prolonged until December 1998, when Cambodia was able to achieve the full peace after the implementation of the Win-Win policy to find a political solution among ourselves. In this regard, I re-emphasise that we must have “national ownership” in peace-building and nation building in the post-conflict period,” the Cambodian Prime Minister underlined.

Source: Agency Kampuchea Press

H.E. Wang Yi, State Councilor and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, started today his two-day official visit in Cambodia, at the invitation of H.E. Prak Sokhonn, Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
According to a press release of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, during the visit, H.E. Wang Yi will pay a courtesy call on Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, and have a working breakfast with Deputy Prime Minister H.E. Hor Namhong.
The Chinese foreign minister will hold a bilateral meeting with H.E. Deputy Prime Minister Prak Sokhonn, during which various aspects of bilateral cooperation such as the fight against COVID-19, trade and investment, education, security and national defence, as well as regional and international issues of common interest and concern will be discussed.
Samdech Techo Prime Minister Hun Sen and H.E. Wang Yi, with the participation of Samdech Pichey Sena Tea Banh, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of National Defence and Chairman of Cambodian SEA Games Organising Committee (CAMSOC), and H.E. Dr. Thong Khon, Minister of Tourism and Vice Chairman of CAMSOC, will preside over the handover ceremony of the Morodok Techo National Stadium which will be the centerpiece venue for Cambodia’s 2023 SEA Games. Samdech Techo Prime Minister Hun Sen and H.E. Wang Yi will also witness and preside over the signing ceremony on a number of important bilateral documents.
The official visit of H.E. Wang Yi to Cambodia will further strengthen the traditional friendship and Comprehensive Strategic Partnership of cooperation between the two countries in the midst of current global challenges.

Source: Agency Kampuchea Press