Foreign Minister backs full UN membership for Palestinians

Speaking at the UN General Assembly in New York on Monday, Foreign Minister Hor Namhong backed the Palestinians’ bid for full UN membership and called for the lifting of a decades-old US embargo on Cuba, one of the countries backing Cambodia’s bid for a seat on the UN Security Council. Mr Namhong outlined Cambodia’s position during a wide-ranging address to the General Assembly in which he held forth on all manner of global issues, from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to nuclear proliferation, according to a copy of the speech posted to the UN’s website…