Day: December 6, 2021

Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, has expressed his disappointment with a Vietnamese general who had groundlessly commented that the COVID-19 pandemic was spread from Cambodia to Vietnam.
Addressing to the inauguration ceremony for the official use of National Road No. 11 and Prey Veng road with the total length 96.48 kilometres from Neak Loeung, Junction with NR No. 1, Prey Veng province to Thnal Totoeung, Junction with NR No. 7, Thbong Khmum province, Samdech Techo Hun Sen demanded that Vietnamese general to extend his apologies to Cambodia.
“His comments saying that the COVID-19 pandemic was spread from Cambodia to Vietnam is unacceptable, it is an insult to Cambodia, which pushed me to start the vaccination campaign for our people which reached now more than 88 percent of the whole population,” he underlined.
Samdech Techo Hun Sen confirmed that his reaction on this issue is not to break the relations between Cambodia and Vietnam or to criticise the whole Vietnamese people, state and party, but only a general of Vietnam.
On the occasion, Samdech Techo Hun Sen also expressed his profound thanks to China as the main vaccination partner of Cambodia against the pandemic of COVID-19 in Cambodia.

Source: Agency Kampuchea Press

Prime Minister Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen this morning revealed that there are more than one candidates as his successor, after he expressed his support to his eldest son, Royal Cambodian Army Commander, Lt. Gen. Hun Manet, early this month.
While presiding over the inauguration ceremony for the official use of National Road No. 11 and Prey Veng road with the total length 96.48 kilometres from Neak Loeung, Junction with NR No. 1, Prey Veng province to Thnal Totoeung, Junction with NR No. 7 Thbong Khmum province, Samdech Techo Hun Sen said Lt. Gen. Hun Manet is not the only future candidate for the post of Prime Minister.
“Manet is not the only one candidate, actually there are four in my mind,” he underlined, but did not reveal the names of the other three candidates.
Samdech Techo Hun Sen said there are a lot of prime minister candidates in the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP).
Samdech Techo Hun Sen also reiterated that he will continue to hold his post for 8 to 10 years more as long as the citizens continue to support him, and Lt. Gen. Hun Manet and other candidates are reserves for any unexpected incident.
Samdech Techo Hun Sen has become the Prime Minister of Cambodia since 1985.

Source: Agency Kampuchea Press

Prime Minister Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen said tomorrow he will hold talks with Myanmar’s foreign minister and the possibility of his visit to Nay Pyi Taw is high.
“If we do not work with the authorities in Myanmar, who do we have to work with?” he asked at the inauguration ceremony for the official use of National Road No. 11 and Prey Veng road with the total length 96.48 kilometres from Neak Loeung, Junction with NR No. 1, Prey Veng province to Thnal Totoeung, Junction with NR No. 7 Thbong Khmum province this morning.
“We do not go far beyond the principles and Charter of ASEAN, but we cannot apply the United Nations’ formula in ASEAN,” he underlined
The structure of the United Nations is not the structure of ASEAN, so the model of the United Nations cannot be used with ASEAN, he added.
The ASEAN Charter states that ASEAN has no right to expel any member and that ASEAN’s decision is made in the spirit of consensus, he stressed.
Regarding the ASEAN Charter, Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen recalled that at a summit in 2007 in Cebu, the Philippines, Cambodia led the discussion and also had the support from Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam regarding a point about the ASEAN’s decision to expel any ASEAN member if it committed a serious mistake.
“On the occasion, I raised some questions: who is the judge of the serious mistake case? What is the serious mistake of dismissal? At that time, no leader answered, so to maintain the ASEAN’s solidarity and prosperity, consensus is the priority,” he underlined.

Source: Agency Kampuchea Press