Ministry to meet with foreign NGOs

The Foreign Affairs Ministry today holds its first consultative meeting with numerous foreign non-governmental organisations operating in the country, in a move to exchange views and strengthen cooperation. “Foreign Affairs Minister Prak Sokhonn will deliver an opening remark by giving an overall emphasis on the presence and contribution of local foreign NGOs to the socio-economic development of Cambodia and their rights and obligations under the Law on Associations and Non-Governmental Organisations,” a Foreign Affairs Ministry statement said yesterday. It said about 300 officials from ministries, stakeholders and members of foreign NGOs are slated to attend the meeting.

“It is worth noting that it is the first consultative gathering held by the MFAIC aiming to exchange candid views and to strengthen the cooperation between the RGC and the foreign NGOs,” the statement said. The first consultative meeting is being held a week after Mr Sokhonn met with EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström on the sidelines of the Asean-EU Ministerial Meeting in Brussels to discuss the future of Cambodia’s access to the Everything-but-arms preferential trade agreement. The meeting is a part of plans announced by the Interior Ministry late last year to meet representatives of local civil society organisations biannually.

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