Rosewood trade must stop: PM

14 March 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Environment and natural resources / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Land / Logging and timber
Chinese aid / Foreign Minister Hor Namhong / Hor Namhong / Hun Sen / illegal timber trade / Laos / logging-related border shootings / Myanmar / Phnom Penh International Airport / Prime Minister Hun Sen / rosewood / rosewood trading / Siam rosewood / Thai-Cambodian border / Thailand

Prime Minister Hun Sen has called on Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar and Laos to help curb the illegal trade in rosewood after Cambodia’s bloodiest year yet for logging-related border shootings. Speaking to reporters at Phnom Penh International Airport after the premier returned from a two-day meeting of Mekong countries, Foreign Minister Hor Namhong said Hun Sen had pushed the issue at the regional forum. … Among the 177 members of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which voted to list the species, were the five Mekong states and China — Cambodia’s biggest customer for the luxury wood.

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