Rainsy and CPP: From Enemies to ‘Negotiating Partners’

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News by Khmer Times/Pierre Gillette and Emmanuel Scheffer

PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – Despite his jet-black hair, Sam Rainsy turned 66 in March. And it was clear in an interview with Khmer Times this week that the leader of Cambodia’s opposition is mellowing.

It does not take a political scientist to see that when he says: “With age, you become more serene, you think more in the long term.”

What is the “Culture of Dialogue”, the new policy he is forging with Prime Minister Hun Sen, aged 62?

“Before I considered them as enemies, now, I perhaps I see them as adversaries, but in any case, as ‘interlocuteurs,’” he said, using a French word which means “interlocutors” or “negotiating partners”.

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