{"id":3574,"date":"2021-06-07T15:07:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T08:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comfrel.org\/english\/?p=3574"},"modified":"2021-06-07T15:07:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T08:07:38","slug":"international-community-31st-may-04th-jun-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comfrel.org\/english\/international-community-31st-may-04th-jun-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"International Community  (31st May \u2013 04th Jun, 2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy R Sherman on June 1 met with Prime<br>Minister Hun Sen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A State Department statement on Sherman\u2019s meetings in Phnom Penh said she<br>also took issue with a naval base China is helping to fund and build near<br>where U.S.-built facilities had been demolished. \u201cDeputy Secretary Sherman<br>expressed serious concerns about the PRC\u2019s military presence and<br>construction of facilities at Ream Naval Base on the Gulf of Thailand,\u201d said<br>a department spokesman. \u201cShe sought clarification on the demolition of two<br>U.S.-funded buildings at Ream without notification or explanation and<br>observed that a PRC military base in Cambodia would undermine its<br>sovereignty. threaten regional security, and negatively impact U.S.-Cambodia<br>relations,\u201d the spokesman added. \u201cShe called on authorities to promptly drop<br>the politically motivated charges against members of the political<br>opposition, journalists, and activists\u201d and \u201cpressed the government to<br>reopen civic and political space in advance of the 2022 commune and 2023<br>national elections,\u201d added the statement.&nbsp; Mr Hun Sen propose a discussion<br>on cancelling Cambodia\u2019s Lon Nol-era debt, and US investments in the<br>Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2Re6sbr;\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2Re6sbr;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>France will provide about $122 million to $146 million a year to support<br>development in Cambodia in the form of a concession loan for a six-year<br>period from 2021 to 2026, according to the Ministry of Economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3wQgpeh\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3wQgpeh<\/a>&gt;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3wQgpeh\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3wQgpeh<\/a>;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The EU Delegation to Cambodia and World Health Organisation (WHO) have<br>demonstrated their joint commitment to assisting Cambodia with its Covid-19<br>response while helping the country prepare for future health security<br>threats by investing $3.5 million into a project spanning over three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3pfORfK;\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3pfORfK;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China will help to modernise and expand Cambodia&#8217;s largest naval base but<br>will not be the only country given access to the facility, Cambodian media<br>reported on Wednesday (Jun 2), quoting the country&#8217;s defence minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2TCl8C2\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2TCl8C2<\/a>&gt;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2TCl8C2\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2TCl8C2<\/a>;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keut Rith, Minister of Justice, received Pauline Tamesis, President of the<br>United Nations Resident Coordinator in Cambodia, accompanied by a<br>representative of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights<br>(OHCHR) and UNICEF representatives meet to discuss work related to resolving<br>prison overcrowding within the framework of the Capital-Provincial Court<br>Case Management Campaign and a number of issues related to the law on<br>measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19 and Infectious diseases and other<br>serious accidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3cg6sz4\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3cg6sz4<\/a>&gt;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3cg6sz4\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3cg6sz4<\/a>;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy R Sherman on June 1 met with PrimeMinister Hun Sen. A State Department statement on Sherman\u2019s meetings in Phnom Penh said shealso took issue with a naval base China is helping to fund and build nearwhere U.S.-built facilities had been demolished. \u201cDeputy Secretary Shermanexpressed serious concerns about the PRC\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comfrel.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574","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=3574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comfrel.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3575,"href":"https:\/\/comfrel.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions\/3575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comfrel.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comfrel.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comfrel.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}