Calls for Kingdom to join transparency group
A new US commitment to oil and mining transparency may push the Kingdom closer to a similar agreement, Cambodian experts have said. US President Barack Obama announced earlier this week that the US would join the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative as an implementing country, according to a White House statement. The pledge, the first from a G8 country, commits the US to public disclosure of revenues from oil, gas and mining assets. Cambodia considered EITI membership in 2007 but has since declined to sign on…
