Cambodia Monitoring the Situation in Myanmar


Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, this morning said that the Kingdom is closely monitoring the situation in Myanmar.

“Something is happening in Yangon […], Cambodia is monitoring the situation, but as an ASEAN Member State, Cambodia will not make any comment on the internal affair of other countries in ASEAN,” he underlined at the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of Bakheng Water Treatment Plant and the inauguration ceremony of Chamkar Mon Water Treatment Plant in Khan Chroy Changvar, Phnom Penh.

According to Chinese News Agency Xinhua, Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint as well as other senior figures from the ruling party have been detained by the military early this morning. The Myanmar President’s Office declared a state of emergency for one year.