{"id":1724,"date":"2020-01-21T10:13:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T03:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comfrel.org\/english\/?p=1724"},"modified":"2020-01-21T10:13:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T03:13:15","slug":"other-and-political-opinions-18-22-february-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comfrel.org\/english\/other-and-political-opinions-18-22-february-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Other and  Political Opinions (18-22 February 2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gareth\nEvans, former Australian foreign minister and an initiator of the 1991 Paris\nPeace Accords for Cambodia, One of the greatest disappointments of my public\nlife has been the international community\u2019s failure \u2013 and my failure, the\nfailure of all of us \u2013 to match the achievement of peace in Cambodia, which so\nmany of us worked so hard to achieve, with any comparable achievement in\nrelation to democracy and human rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2BKg4zN;\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2BKg4zN;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EU-Cambodia relations continued their\ndownward spiral following the <a href=\"http:\/\/europa.eu\/rapid\/press-release_IP-19-882_en.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">official announcement<\/a> that the European Union (EU) would\nbegin the process of suspending the Everything but Arms (EBA) trade scheme with\nCambodia, highlighting the deterioration of democracy, respect for human\nrights, and the rule of law in Cambodia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2Nj5tQD;\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2Nj5tQD;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A\nglobal money-laundering watchdog, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), will\nplace Cambodia on its watchlist on Friday because of concern it is highly\nvulnerable to money laundering, a high-level source at the organisation said.<a href=\"https:\/\/dailym.ai\/2V9QECJ\">https:\/\/dailym.ai\/2V9QECJ<\/a>; &nbsp;\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gareth Evans, former Australian foreign minister and an initiator of the 1991 Paris Peace Accords for Cambodia, One of the greatest disappointments of my public life has been the international community\u2019s failure \u2013 and my failure, the failure of all of us \u2013 to match the achievement of peace in Cambodia, which so many of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-and-political-opinions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comfrel.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comfrel.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comfrel.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comfrel.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comfrel.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comfrel.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1725,"href":"https:\/\/comfrel.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions\/1725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comfrel.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comfrel.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comfrel.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}