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Former Vietnamese President to visit Cambodia
Monday, 12 April 2010 08:31 DAP-NEWS/ Tep Piseth
Former Vietnam President will visit Cambodia on April 20 to tighten the bilateral bonds between the two neighboring countries, the statement from Cambodia side obtained on Monday said.
Last week, a senior official from Cambodian Royal Palace said that former King Norodom Sihanouk also will pay the visit to Vietnam for personal relation only.
Cambodian and Vietnamese government have been trying to plant border markers to end it soon to construct the peaceful, security and development border. Border issue is a sensitive one for both countries.
The statement said former Vietnamese president will pay the courtesy call with Samdech Heng Samrin, president of the national assembly on April 20. And he will meet other top governmental officials. According to the his biography,
Trần Đức Lương was born on May 5, 1937. He is the former President of Vietnam from 1997 to 2006. Lươngwas born in Quảng Ngãi province, and moved to Hanoi after leaving school in 1955.
He studied geology, and was employed as a cartographer. He joined the Communist Party of Vietnam in 1959, and became a functionary of the party in the 1970s. In 1987, he became deputy prime minister. Member of the Politburo since June 1996, he was elected president on September 24, 1997, and re-elected in 2002. On June 24, 2006, Trần Đức Lương announced his resignation (along with Prime Minister Phan Va(n Kha?i). Nguye^~n Minh Trie^'t was named to succeed Tra^`n as president.
ASEAN’s Chairman Vietnam Says Thai Politics is Internal Affairs, No Meeting
Monday, 12 April 2010 10:11 by Ek Madra
PHNOM PENH-Vietnam’s Foreign Minister said Thai political unrest is internal affairs and it is not practical to convene an urgent ASEAN meeting on how to response the current Thai political crisis after violent clashes between anti-government "red shirts" and security forces that killed 21 people and wounded over 800.
Vietnamese Pham Gia Khiem, who is also Deputy Prime Minister, said after Cambodian foreign minister wrote to Hanoi “to convene an urgent special ASEAN Summit in order to help looking for an appropriate ways to defuse an extremely explosive situation in our friendly Thailand”.
Khiem said that “in this regard and taking into account ASEAN’s practice, I would like to seek your views on the matter and look forward to receiving your response by early (on Monday) and on how ASEAN should proceed”.
“Besides, I am of the view that it is not practical to convene a special ASEAN Summit as having been proposed,” said Khiem in a letter on Sunday to ASEAN chief and leaders of the ten Asian nations of the bloc.
He also said that ASEAN Member states are following with concerns over the recent violent situation in Thailand.
“Several ASEAN Member States, including Vietnam, have already expressed national views on this situation,” said Khiem.
“Although this matter is the internal affairs of Thailand, I share the view possibility of issuing an ASEAN as a whole should consider some kind of joint expression of views on the violence aspect as we did it before.”
He however said that Thailand has rejected the call for special meeting of ASEAN.
“As ASEAN Chair, Vietnam has consulted with Thailand on the possibility of issuing an ASEAN Chairman’s Statement on behalf of ASEAN Foreign Ministers, but Thailand’s SOM Leaders responded negatively,” Khiem said.
Foreign media reported that 20 were killed and more than 800 were wounded in the Saturday’s clashes in Bangkok between troops and the Red Shirts, mostly rural and working-class supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra who was ousted in a coup in 2006, are demanding that Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva dissolve parliament immediately and leave the country.
The report said the clashes, the worst political violence in Thailand in 18 years, some of it in well-known tourist areas, ended after security forces pulled back late on Saturday.
“In light of this very grave development which no one knows when it will end and whether it will lead to more bloodshed,” he said in the letter to Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem on Saturday.
“I think that we, as fellow ASEAN member states cannot stand idle and leave ASEAN image at stake any further,” said the release.
“Therefore, I would like to propose that Vietnam as Chair of ASEAN should issue a Declaration on the situation in Thailand, or convene an urgent special ASEAN Summit in order to help looking for an appropriate ways to defuse an extremely explosive situation in our friendly Thailand,” Hor Namhong said in the release.
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva cancelled summit last week trip to Hanoi, where the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' Summit (ASEAN) after declaring a state of emergency on Wednesday to control a month-long anti-government protest aimed at forcing an election.
ASEAN bloc includes Brunei, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.
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