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PM: Talks To Be Resumed After Ratification of Bilateral Agreements by Thai Parliament
Phnom Penh, August 13, 2010 AKP --
Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, has expressed his government’s stance to resume the bilateral border negotiations after Thai Parliament ratified the last three bilateral border agreements.
If the bilateral talks do not work, we will invite the third party, stressed Samdech Techo Hun Sen here on Thursday at the closing ceremony of a meeting on the protection of Tonle Sap Lake.
He further asked the Thai side not to be afraid of the participation from the third party, which could be ASEAN or UN or special envoy of the UN secretary general or any dignitary such as president of Indonesia.
Samdech Techo Hun Sen also said he would propose the UN secretary general who will pay a visit to Cambodia on Oct. 27-28 to play the role as coordinator for this border issue.
Samdech Techo Hun Sen also reacted to the Thai side, which insisted on the withdrawal of the Cambodian troops and people from the 4.6-square kilometer area (near Preah Vihear Temple) it considered as overlapping zone. “Where is that area of 4.6 square kilometers,” he asked, recalling that according to the judgment of the Hague International Court of Justice in 1962, the Preah Vihear Temple and its surrounding area belong to Cambodia. --AKP
(By SOKMOM Nimul)
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Cambodian Premier Presides Over the Closing of Meeting on Tonle Sap Lake Conservation
Phnom Penh, August 13, 2010 AKP --
Prime Minister Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen presided over the closing ceremony of a meeting on Tonle Sap Lake conservation held here on August 12.
The meeting was also attended by government officials, foreign ambassadors to Cambodia, and representatives of local and international organizations as partners of Tonle Sap authorities.
After a two-day meeting, some factors were found as a cause for destroying a flooded forest plain of Tonle Sap Lake, said Deputy Prime Minister H.E. Yim Chhay Ly, chairman of the Council for Rehabilitation and Development of Agriculture and Rural Area in his report presented at the event.
He said an area of 640,000 hectares in six provinces situated around Tonle Sap Lake is determined as protected area of flooded forests.
Addressing the meeting, Prime Minister Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen appealed to the concerned institutions, mainly the six provincial authorities, to revive Tonle Sap Lake which is now being affected by serious destruction and anarchic acts.
“The area served as a special eco-system for providing shelter for fish to lay eggs will be lost and destroyed.”
Therefore, he said, the royal government, with the participation of the related institutions as well as people, has to take measure against and prevent the destruction of protected area of Tonle Sap Lake. --AKP
(By THOU Peou)
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International Exercise to Prepare for Severe Pandemics To Be Held in Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh, August 13, 2010 AKP --
ASEAN, the United Nations and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will host the Southeast Asia Regional Multisectoral Pandemic Preparedness and Response Tabletop Exercise in Phnom Penh from Aug. 16 to 20.
The five-day exercise, a first of its kind anywhere in the world, will focus on managing the impacts of severe pandemics on societies, governments and organizations in the Asia-Pacific region.
This tabletop exercise will help us response on time to the outbreak of any pandemic as well as to natural disasters, said ASEAN Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan.
Representative from nine of the 10 ASEAN member states and observer states, senior representatives and leading experts from regional intergovernmental organizations, UN agencies, other key international bodies and NGOs responding to animal and pandemic influenza will take part in the international event.
The upcoming exercise is expected to attract over 170 high level participants. --AKP
(By CHAN Soratha)
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U.S. Praises Cambodian Military’s Mine Clearance Action
Phnom Penh, August 13, 2010 AKP --
The U.S. Capstone delegation praised and highly valued Cambodia for its military mine clearance mission since 2006.
The appreciation was made known here on Aug. 11 by former General Michael Carns, head of U.S. Capstone delegation during a meeting with General Sem Sovanny, director general of the National Center for Peacekeeping Forces and ERW Clearance (NPMEC).
Cambodia has successfully completed the mine clearance and order-keeping missions in Chad, Sudan, and Republic of Central Africa under the UN umbrella.
In the meeting, General Sem Sovanny profoundly thanked the U.S.’ spiritual and material support to Cambodia to successfully achieve its UN mission.
He also said that the historic success of the multinational peacekeeping military exercise hosted recently by Cambodia “Angkor Sentinel 2010” was really inseparable from the U.S. army’s support. --AKP
(By CHEA Vannak)
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9th National Medical and Pharmacy Day Held
Phnom Penh, August 13, 2010 AKP --
The 9th National Medical and Pharmacy Day was held here yesterday at the National Institute of Education in the presence of Deputy Prime Minister H.E. Yim Chhay Ly.
Speaking at the event, H.E. Yim Chhay Ly said the royal government in the 4th mandate considers the health improvement as the key factor for human resource development and social economic sustainability.
H.E. Yim Chhay Ly went on to say that the main priority of health field is to reduce the mother and child mortality rate.
Dr. Seng Sok Hun, president of the France-based Cambodian Physician Association and also co-chairman of the 9th National Medical and Pharmacy Day said that four associations from France and Cambodia participated in this event with an aim to exchange experiences and learn about the progress of the medical and pharmacy fields in Cambodia as well as in the world. --AKP
(By Théng)
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Cambodian Scholarship Students Leave for Europe
Phnom Penh, August 13, 2010 AKP --
As many as 33 Cambodian students and professors from the Royal University of Phnom Penh and the Institute of Technology of Cambodia will continue their studies in Europe under the European Commission’s Erasmus Mundus program.
The farewell ceremony was held here on Aug. 12 in the presence of Minister of Education, Youth and Sports H.E. Im Sethy, Chargé d’Affaires of the European Delegation to Cambodia Mr. Rafael Dochao Moreno and representatives of the receiving countries’ embassies in Cambodia.
The Cambodian students and professors will pursue bachelor, master, doctorate, and post-doctorate’s degree programs in Business, Engineering (Automobile, Computer, Electronic, Industrial, Telecommunication), Construction, Environment, English Teacher Training, International Relations, and Urban studies in France, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Sweden.
Erasmus Mundus is a co-operation and mobility program in the field of higher education that aims to enhance the quality of European higher education and to promote dialogue and understanding between people and cultures through co-operation with countries outside the European Union. --AKP
(By LIM Nary)
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