Following the EU’s announcement this week that they had formally launched procedures in preparation for the withdrawal of Cambodia’s Everything But Arms (EBA) trade preferences, Cambodian premier Hun Sen warned against interference in the country's affairs on Tuesday (Feb 12), his first comments since the European Union launched steps to cancel trade benefits that would hammer the local garment industry.
While he modified his statement that declared that Cambodia “will not die even if the EBA disappears”. However Hun Sen said in a phone call to government officers leaked to social media on Thursday that his government must work during the next 18 months to destroy the opposition party at the local level before European Union trade sanctions come into effect,. Cambodia government slammed what it called an “unjust decision” by the European Union to launch proceedings that could see its preferential access to the bloc’s market suspended, saying the move amounted to interference in its internal affairs amid political tensions in the Southeast Asian nation. The Ministry of Commerce is planning a meeting with public and private actors to discuss the revocation of the European Union’s Everything-but-arms (EBA) deal and to find ways to diminish its impact on the economy.
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Minister of Interior Sar Kheng said on Wednesday that commune development budgets will double to more than $70,000 in 2020, excluding administrative costs, and more than triple in 2023, in response to public needs – but an NGO has requested transparency over the allocation of funds. He also said on Tuesday that the recent violent crackdowns in Kratie and Preah Sihanouk provinces on people locked in land disputes were illegally implemented and procedurally wrong as the military was used.
Interior Minister Sar Kheng on Wednesday warned local authorities in Cambodia not to use armed forces to violently disperse protesters.
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The Cambodian government on Thursday received $7.66 million from the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Special Fund 2018 to implement 19 projects.https://bit.ly/2GGDolc;
