Excerpts of the impromptu speech of Samdech Techo Hun Sen, President of the Senate and Chairman of the Supreme Privy Council at the conference on “Cambodia’s Future without Genocide: Protection and Response through Education and Healthcare”​ [Unofficial excerpts and translations]

[1] (1) Measures to provide protection, traffic in addition to security during each hearing required to select the Army Command as the tribunal court to try Khmer Rouge leaders I should point out a bit as to how did we decided on the location of the Khmer Rouge trial here […] when the agreement between…

Statement and press conference of Samdech Techo Hun Sen on the occasion of signing the alliance agreement between the Cambodian People’s Party and 27 other political parties [Unofficial Translation]

The Four Vice Presidents of CPP,His Excellency, Lok Chumteav,Party President and Leaders of all the political parties invited today, First of all, I would like to extend a warm welcome to His Excellency, Lok Chumteav, leaders of all political parties who have volunteered to participate in and sign the cooperation of alliance today. As the…

Extensive Excerpts from Samdech Techo Hun Sen’s Conversation with the Cambodian Community in Switzerland and Europe [Unofficial Translation]

The Gathering Indicates Affection to Local Cambodians, the Royal Government […] Our previous plan was I came to Davos in January. But then in Europe there was an outbreak of Omicron mutation virus. Therefore, the organizers of the World Economic Forum asked for an extension and set a new date on 22-27 (May). Parallelly, the…

Speech and Off-the-Cuff Comments at the Closing Session of the National Supreme Council of Consultation to Take Stock of the 16 Months Works (September 2018 – 2019) and to Set Directions for 2020 [Unofficial Translation]

In addition to the prepared text, Samdech Techo made three additional comments/points that Cambodia New vision has unofficially selected and translated as followed: NSCC to Continue after 2023 After working with each other in this past period, though the royal decree limits the roles and tasks of direct participation of political parties with the Royal…

Selected Extempore Speech at the Graduation and Diploma Presenting Ceremony of the Asia-Europe University [Unofficial Translation]

Internal Factors Determined Successes As in 1970, even though there were foreign influences, should Lon Nol, Sarik Matak, Cheng Heng, and In Tam not collude, there could not have been a coup. Take the present situation into consideration, for instance, foreigners could give us ideas and assistance but would anyone think that we would be…