Sugar on EU visit’s agenda

17 March 2014
The Phnom Penh Post
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European Union Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht will visit Cambodia this week, the European Commission announced, with rights groups hoping that land grabbing related to sugar plantations will be high on the agenda. Following bilateral meetings in Brussels last week between Cambodia and the EU during which human rights, trade and political issues in the Kingdom were raised, European officials will also arrive later this month to discuss development aid commitments until 2020, a Foreign Ministry official said yesterday. In a four-day visit to Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar, De Gucht will aim to “bolster the EU’s trade links with ASEAN countries”, the EU said. …

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