The European Commission has issued a statement calling on the government to show credible improvements on issues of concern in order to avoid the withdrawal of Everything-but-arms trade preferences. An EC and European External Action Service delegation wrapped up a visit to the Kingdom on Monday and issued a statement on Tuesday regarding its ongoing review of the Kingdom’s right to access the EBA.

In the statement, the EC highlighted concerns regarding the violation and potential violation of political rights, freedom of expression, freedom of association, rights to organise and collective bargaining and dispossession of families caused by economic land concessions.

“The mission was part of the monitoring and evaluation under the procedure that could lead to the temporary withdrawal of Cambodia’s trade preferences under the EU’s EBA trade scheme,” the statement said. “[The mission followed] concerns over Cambodia’s record against core human rights and labour rights conventions.” “The EU’s aim is to address the human rights and labour rights concerns. The EU is committed to work with the Cambodian authorities to achieve this,” it added. “Cambodia must show real, credible improvement on issues of concern in order to avoid the withdrawal of EBA preferences.”

 

read more https://www.khmertimeskh.com/614245/eu-tells-kingdom-to-provide-credible-rights-improvements/

 

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On 6/15/2019 at 10:29 AM, BigC said:

<deleted> the EU England  is an independent national.  EU <deleted> themselves 

yeah, good on england and cambodia for throwing their economies down the drain, that ought to show them