The U.S. State Department has expressed concern over the detention of political activists in Cambodia and urged Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government to lift restrictions on members of the banned opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP).
Patrick Murphy, the newly minted US Ambassador to Cambodia, arrived in Phnom Penh on Wednesday night intending to strengthen US-Cambodia relations.
The US is allowing Sam Rainsy to use its territory to carry out terrorist activities against Cambodia, government spokesman Phay Siphan charged.
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In a meeting of prime ministers, Cambodia’s Hun Sen appeared to eliminate neighboring Laos as a potential route by which self-exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy could return to Cambodia as he has pledged to do in November.
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The Cambodian government should end its "assault" on opposition members and drop all politically motivated charges against them after a spike in arrests ahead of an exiled opposition leader’s return to the country, a Southeast Asian rights group stated.
Prime Minister Hun Sen said that he would pay an official visit to South Korea in November to attend the 2019 Asean-ROK Commemorative Summit and the inaugural Korea-Mekong summit in Busan city.https://bit.ly/2kWRAOv;
