Obama, Clinton visits set

In a sign of “improving” relations between Cambodia and the United States, the Kingdom will host US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this year, officials confirmed yesterday. The visit would be the first by a sitting US president. Joseph Yun, the US deputy assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific affairs, said yesterday that Clinton and Obama would make separate visits in July and November, respectively. “We expect to have our Secretary of State here in July, as well as our President for the [Asean-US] summit,” he said, following a closed-door meeting with Ouch Borith, secretary of state at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ouch Borith confirmed his counterpart’s statement. “The participation by President Obama during the Asean-US summit in November in territorial Cambodia is a sign that confirms that the relationship between Cambodia and the US is improving,” Ouch Borith said, adding that further details of the visit could not yet be provided due to “security concerns”…

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