Deputy Prime Minister Sar Kheng said the loss of the EU’s Everything But Arms (EBA) trade preferences would affect Cambodia to some extent, but it would also give the Kingdom the opportunity to strengthen itself. He said the Kingdom should instead address money laundering. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sar Kheng urged newly-elected councillors to serve the people equally and justly without political biases.
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Minister of National Defence Tea Banh that having sanctions and external pressure placed on Cambodia was not worse than life under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime.
Defence Minister General Tea Banh renewed criticism over the use of the word invasion when describing the Vietnamese liberation of Cambodia in the 1970s and 80s, calling those who use the word unforgivable.https://bit.ly/2ItSQ4t; https://bit.ly/2WUs35r;
