Monday, 1 June 2009

Cambodia celebrates International Children's Day

People's Daily Online
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June 01, 2009

Cambodian PM Hun Sen on Monday expressed his sincere support for activities that have been dealing with Children in order to promote their rights and necessary resolutions for them.

"We strongly support the international day for children and it is a meaningful for stopping the child labor," the premier said in his statement for the annual International Children's Day.

"We must try to promote their rights more such as taking care for all of them especially girls who have to chance to receive basic study for at least nine years and we have to avoid the exploitation of child labor," he said.

The premier also said that "we have to train them to help them having the abilities, work skill and knowledge to develop the country," and that "we have to improve the education quality and strengthen the measures to prevent all kinds of crimes against the children such as the child trafficking."

The children are the pillars for country, Hun Sen stressed, adding that the government has determined to increase the intervention on social affairs through increasing the national budget subsequently on education, health, agriculture, and rural development, as well as improving children's health and helping other victims, he stressed.

Source: Xinhua

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