Still No Agreement Over Opposition Marches
A meeting between representatives of the CNRP and Phnom Penh City Hall officials Monday failed to produce an agreement over the opposition party’s plans to march throughout the city during its three consecutive days of demonstrations starting Wednesday. City Hall officials last week decreed that the CNRP would be allowed to host only 10,000 people at Freedom Park for its demonstration and said that security forces would prevent marchers leaving the park. But CNRP leaders have said they will not heed City Hall’s demands and plan to march to the offices of the U.N. and at least seven foreign embassies in the city to deliver a petition calling for foreign intervention in the country’s current political deadlock. City Hall spokesman Long Dimanche said that neither side had changed their position concerning the planned marches during yesterday’s meeting, but added that the municipality had decided to allow the opposition to send 20 representatives from Freedom Park to deliver their petition to the U.N. and embassies. …
Mech Dara and Alex Willemyn
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