Source: FN
Speaking to representative of the ASEAN-EU Business Council for Southeast Asia on Thursday in Brussels, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said that if EU really withdraws EBA schemes from Cambodia, EU’s democratic countries will commit the third mistake against Cambodia.
“The first mistake was supporting coup in Cambodia during 1970s; the second was supporting Khmer Rouge for one decade, particularly supporting the Khmer Rouge to occupy the UN seat; and the third, even the EU just decided to set in motion the formal procedure, once realized, it will become the third mistake of EU’s democratic countries against Cambodia,” the premier stated.
The Cambodian Strongman’s statement came after some countries in EU threatened to withdraw EBA schemes from Cambodia and Myanmar.
EU has assisted Cambodia on all sectors, the premier said, if EU decided to withdraw EBA, EU will abandon everything they have done for Cambodia over the past years.