UK’s Minister for Asia builds ties with new Asean Chair Cambodia

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UK Minister for Asia Amanda Milling has completed a two-day visit to the Kingdom to build closer ties with Asean Chair Cambodia. Milling is the first minister from an Asean Dialogue Partner nation to visit Cambodia since the country took over from Brunei as chair earlier this month. She is also the first UK minister to visit the country since her country secured Dialogue Partner status with Asean last year.

 

Cambodia will be a vital partner for the UK in this year as we seek an ever-closer relationship with our Asean friends, she said on Tuesday. “Coming to Phnom Penh as my first visit of the year demonstrates our commitment to boosting ties and working with Cambodia to solve some of the region’s biggest challenges, from building back better from Covid-19 to resolving the crisis in Myanmar and climate change,” she added.

 

The minister held talks with senior members of the government. She met Foreign Affairs Minister Prak Sohhonn, who is also the proposed new Asean special envoy to Myanmar, for a discussion on forging closer cooperation on shared challenges and working together to further UK-Asean relations.

Sokhonn said both sides exchanged fruitful discussion.

 

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