via CAAI
December 25, 2010
PHNOM PENH: Cambodia’s premier said on Friday he accepted an apology from the World Food Programme (WFP) for an incorrect statement about the country’s food security, days after the controversial jailing of a WFP worker.
Cambodian warehouse employee Seng Kunnaka was sentenced on Sunday to six months in prison for printing and distributing anti-government material in a rushed trial.
The arrest came not long after Prime Minister Hun Sen gave a speech in which he attacked the WFP for wrongly claiming Cambodia was vulnerable to food shortages.
WFP has since apologised for the error. A government spokesman had said this week that there was no connection between the arrest and Hun Sen’s attack on WFP.
Agence France-Presse
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