Swiss president pledges to help Cambodia

[geovalin]

 

Prime Minister Hun Sen has asked Switzerland to expand the volume of trade between both countries and to help train the human resources of Cambodia. The request was made on Thursday during talk in Davos with president of the Swiss Confederation Doris Leuthard. Both sides pledged to enhance friendship and cooperation.
 

According to a post on the prime minister’s Facebook page on Friday, so far the Swiss government has assisted and provided aid to Cambodia on demining, health and the Khmer Rouge tribunal. “Samdech Techo [Hun Sen] requested to expand the volume of trade between both countries which nowadays is about $30 million and he asks it be bigger,” read the post, adding that working groups from both countries will continue to discuss a foreign trade agreement and both countries will urge their private sectors to export quality products to Cambodia, and to import Cambodian products such as rice. 
 

It added that now Cambodia has markets in Europe, America, China, South Korea and other countries worth about $12 billion. The prime minister also asked the Swiss government to continue helping Cambodia train human resources.

 

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[geisha]

The Cambodian government should get up off their lazy greedy backsides and start  helping  their own people before begging abroad. The horrors of the Cambodian Khmer Rouge are decades away, gone, not forgotten, but Cambodians are still living  in the horror of  today's world. . Begging to eat , life on the pavements of Phnom Penh 200 meters from the palace, the aged and babies live together in tents and squalor. Cambodia has a record number of NGO s  " working" there, and nothing seems to get done to stop the suffering. Cambodia is a very small country, it's not Africa, starvation and sickness should have been stamped out years ago. 

So, message to the Swiss president, be careful who you are giving your help ( money) too, as it certainly won't go to the poor. Shame on the lot of them !