PM, Rainsy meet nailed down: gov’t
Two days after opposition calls for renewed negotiations, Information Minister Khieu Kanharith announced yesterday evening that the ruling party will sit down with its opposition counterparts on Thursday to talk election reform, though opposition leaders last night weren’t so sure. Speaking at a gathering of journalists at the Cambodiana Hotel yesterday, Kanharith said that Prime Minister Hun Sen would sit down across the table from opposition leader and Cambodia National Rescue Party president Sam Rainsy for the first time since September, but only to negotiate on the subject of electoral reform. … CNRP spokesman Yim Sovann, however, maintained last night that the party had received no word of any such meeting, but noted that the opposition had been “willing to talk since the beginning”. …
Stuart White and Meas Sokchea
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