Government Says Constitutional Amendment Is Not a Change
The government has taken exception to language used to refer to its plan to amend the Constitution dealing with Cambodia’s borders, saying that the planned “amendment” does not constitute a “change”. Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday said that he had launched a study to amend Article 2 of the Constitution. The article protects the country’s territorial integrity, referring to French-colonial-era map of Cambodia’s borders. Council of Ministers spokesman Phan Siphan said that it was too early to say precisely what would be added to, or removed from the Constitution, but insisted that the plan was not to change the Constitution. …
