China donates equipment to Cambodia for 2012 ASEAN meetings

The government of China on Monday delivered office supplies and equipment worth $403,000 to Cambodia in order to ease the country’s burden when it hosts the ASEAN summit and related Summits this year. The office supplies and equipment included 200 sets of desktops, 60 sets of laser printers, 100 sets of laptops, 5 sets of projectors, 50 voice recorders, 20 fax machines, 5 color duplicators, 10 sets of binding machines and 20 flatbed scanners. The handover ceremony was made between the Ambassador of China to Cambodia Pan Guangxue and Cambodia’s Deputy Prime Minister Hor Namhong, minister of foreign affairs and international cooperation. “The donation is to express China’s full support to Cambodia for chairing ASEAN this year,” said Pan Guangxue. “China hopes that these supplies and equipment will help Cambodian staff work effectively in hosting ASEAN summits this year.” Meanwhile, Hor Namhong said that the office supplies and equipment were very necessary for Cambodia to use for the work of ASEAN meetings. …

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