Ministries and other national bodies

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation

Sino-Cambodian ties ‘at all-time high’

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Prak Sokhonn said on Sunday that relations and mutual political trust between Cambodia and China are now stronger than ever due to frequent high-level exchanges between the two countries’ senior officials. ...

Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sino-cambodian-ties-all-time-high

Hun Sen to sign new aid agreements during trip to China

China and Cambodia are expected to sign a number of agreements, including one on Chinese assistance and project cooperation, during Prime Minister Hun Sen’s attendance at this week’s Belt and Road Forum in Beijing. Mr Hun Sen will lead a high-level delegation to attend the ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50596846/hun-sen-to-sign-new-aid-agreements-during-trip-to-china/

Gov’t, WFP ink $50M strategic plan

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the World Food Programme (WFP) have signed a $50 million aid plan aimed to reduce food security and nutrition. The Cambodia Country Strategic Plan 2019-2023 was approved by the WFP council on February 27 in Italy. ...

Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-wfp-ink-50m-strategic-plan

EU team to arrive for EBA talks

An Eu delegation is set to arrive in Phnom Penh next week for a two-day official visit to discuss the process for withdrawing Cambodia’s access to its preferential ‘Everything But Arms’ (EBA) agreement, officials said on Tuesday. Meanwhile, analysts have called on the EU to ...

Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eu-team-arrive-eba-talks

Foreign Affairs Minister lays out core foreign policy values

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation on Monday outlined the four core foreign policy values that Cambodia is focusing on in the current global context. Deputy Prime Minister Prak Sokhonn was talking to some 1,200 university students at the National Institute of Education ...

Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/foreign-affairs-minister-lays-out-core-foreign-policy-values

Japan aid totals $135 million

Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Prak Sokhonn on Wednesday said the Japanese government had provided the Kingdom with $134.38 million in aid packages in the past 12 months – $19.42 million in grants and the remaining $114.96 million in loans. ...

Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/japan-aid-totals-135-million

LMC gives $7M in funds to government for 19 projects

The Cambodian government on Thursday received $7.66 million from the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Special Fund 2018 to implement 19 projects. Initiated by the Chinese government during the first LMC Leaders’ meeting in China’s Hainan province in March 2016, the LMC Special Fund aims to support ...

Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lmc-gives-7m-funds-government-19-projects

Government calls on NGOs to avoid activities linked to crime

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Prak Sokhonn on Tuesday called on all foreign NGOs to avoid at all costs activities which could be associated or linked to money laundering, financing of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. He said ...

Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/government-calls-ngos-avoid-activities-linked-crime

‘All media outlets must pay tax’

Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith on Friday said Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Asia (RFA) would be allowed to reopen their offices only after fulfilling their tax obligations. In a letter dated January 25 to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, ...

Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/all-media-outlets-must-pay-tax

Deputy PM Prak Sokhonn holds Australia bilateral cooperation talks

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Prak Sokhonn met with Australian Senate president Scott Ryan on Saturday to discuss bilateral cooperation between the two nations. Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Ket Sophann could not be reached for comment on Sunday, ...

Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/deputy-pm-prak-sokhonn-holds-australia-bilateral-cooperation-talks

Minister to lead Asean delegation

Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Prak Sokhonn is set to lead a delegation to attend the Asean Foreign Minister’s Retreat (AMM Retreat) in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on Thursday and Friday. The planned visit follows an invitation from his Thai counterpart Don Pramudwinai, said ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minister-lead-asean-delegation

UDG denies links to naval base

The vice president of China’s Union Development Group has dismissed reports that it is involved in the construction of a Chinese naval base in Koh Kong province. A report published by Asia Times last month said that China has been lobbying the Cambodian government since ...

Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50564717/udg-denies-links-to-naval-base/

West ‘out to strain China ties’

The People’s Republic of China’s ambassador to Cambodia, Wang Wentian, accused the West of attempting to sabotage the two nations’ friendship during a meeting with Cambodian officials, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation spokesman Ket Sophann said on Tuesday. ...

Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/west-out-strain-china-ties

Cambodia has no reason to host foreign military bases

There is no security need for Cambodia to have a foreign military base. Although sovereignty disputes and border tensions between Cambodia and its neighbors remain unresolved and sometimes violence occurs, Cambodia will never seek to use force or threaten to use force against its neighbours, ...

Chheang Vannarith
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50552864/cambodia-has-no-reason-to-host-foreign-military-bases/

Government denies Koh Kong Chinese naval base ‘rumour’

Two ministries have denied plans for a Chinese naval base in Cambodia and that the Kingdom is caught in the middle of US-China “cold war”. In a press release on Saturday, a Ministry of National Defence spokesperson called the spread of information about a naval ...

Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-denies-koh-kong-chinese-naval-base-rumour

Cambodia calls EU trade threat 'extreme injustice'

Cambodia’s foreign ministry on Thursday said a decision by the European Union to ramp up trade pressure on the country over human rights concerns was an “extreme injustice”, adding it risked destroying decades of development in the country. ...

Aljazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/10/cambodia-calls-eu-trade-threat-extreme-injustice-181011063527570.html

Cambodians advised to delay Indonesia travel

The Cambodian Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, has issued a warning to all citizens planning to travel to the quake- and tsunami-hit region of Indonesia. The embassy urged “all Cambodians with no urgency to visit the disaster-hit area in Central Sulawesi province to suspend their travel ...

Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodians-advised-delay-indonesia-travel

Embassies repatriate 55 workers from three countries

Cambodian embassies have recently repatriated 55 Cambodian nationals who went to China, Malaysia and Vietnam to find work illegally or were duped into forced marriages. Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Ket Sophann yesterday said that the embassy in China repatriated two women who were duped into ...

Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50534019/embassies-repatriate-55-workers-from-three-countries/

Government donates flood aid to Laos

The government yesterday said that it donated $100,000 in humanitarian aid to Laos as a relief package for thousands of victims affected by a collapsed dam that left dozens dead, hundreds missing and thousands displaced. ...

Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50517409/government-donates-flood-aid-to-laos/

Human trafficking report status unchanged

The Ministry of Foreign affairs on Friday said a report by the US State Department on trafficking has again ranked Cambodia in Tier 2, adding that the US recognised that Cambodia has made a serious effort in combating human trafficking. ...

Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50507434/human-trafficking-report-status-unchanged/

Government sends delegation to EU over preferential trade scheme

Officials from the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) have embarked on a two-week mission to the European Union (EU) seeking to have the Kingdom’s tax-free trading preferences with the economic bloc extended, according to a press release on Thursday. ...

Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-sends-delegation-eu-over-preferential-trade-scheme

Cambodia earns UN economic council seat

The Foreign Affairs Ministry yesterday said that Cambodia has been elected to become a non-permanent member of the United Nations Economic and Social Council for a duration of one year.​ A ministry statement said that at the UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday, 183 of ...

Ven Rathavong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50501343/cambodia-earns-un-economic-council-seat/

Cambodia to be vice-president of UNGA

Cambodia has been elected as one of the vice-presidents of the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The Foreign Affairs Ministry said yesterday that the UN has elected Cambodia and 15 other countries to serve as vice-presidents of the UNGA. ...

Ven Rathavong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50498656/cambodia-to-be-vice-president-of-unga/

US Senator holds talks on ‘strengthening cooperation’

Washington State Senator Doug Ericksen and delegates held talks in Phnom Penh with Minister of Foreign Affairs Prak Sokhon on Wednesday aimed at strengthening cooperation between Cambodia and the United States. ...

Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-senator-holds-talks-strengthening-cooperation

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