Cambodian, U.S. leaders hold talks on old debt, human rights

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and visiting U.S. President Barack Obama met here on Monday to discuss a number of issues including old debt, human rights, democracy and forced evictions in Cambodia, a senior Cambodian official said. … Hun Sen also raised the issue of old debt of 162 million U.S. dollars that Cambodia owed the United States in the era of Lon Nol regime between 1970 and 1975, but to date, plus interests, the debt has amounted to more than 400 million U.S. dollars. He said that Cambodia wanted to use a bilateral mechanism, not the Paris Club of creditors, to solve the problem. …

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