Cambodia will cooperate with other partners in ASEAN and Japan to help Myanmar overcome its ongoing crisis.
“Thanks H.E. Ambassador and the Government of Japan for continuing to support my visit to Myanmar to ease the situation in the country. I will work with other partners in ASEAN and Japan who have experience and know the situation in Myanmar to find ways to help this country get through this difficult situation so that there are no more deaths and to ensure the provision of assistance for the people of Myanmar who are most in need,” said the Cambodian Premier while presiding over here this morning the groundbreaking ceremony of Japan-funded sewage treatment plant.
Samdech Techo Hun Sen recalled the purposes of his recent visit to Myanmar – ceasefire and end of violence, provision of humanitarian assistance without discrimination, and dialogue between concerned parties.
He also shared his experience in negotiations for peace in Cambodia, reaffirming that “we cannot use war to end war. Only political solution can put an end to a war.”
The Prime Minister added that negotiations are not easy and take time and the most difficult thing is the military aspect: disarmament, military demobilisation…
As the ASEAN Chair, Samdech Techo Hun Sen said he will continue to do his best so that the Special Envoy of the ASEAN Chair can visit Myanmar to carry out his duties in accordance with the mandate assigned by the ASEAN Leaders and the ASEAN Chair.
H.E. Prak Sokhonn, Special Envoy of the ASEAN Chair, is planning to visit Myanmar next month. “I will go early next month. I think in the second week of March after I return from my trip to Europe. This is a programme that we have prepared, and when exactly it happens, it depends on the answer from Nay Pyi Taw,” he told a press conference at the end of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Retreat in Phnom Penh on Feb. 17.
The visit will mainly focus on the Five-Points Consensus endorsed by the ASEAN Leaders in April last year, underlined H.E. Prak Sokhonn who is also Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cambodia, continuing that he will meet parties concerned, but he cannot meet all in one visit.
“I will then go to Yangon to distribute humanitarian aid to a local hospital and ensure that the assistance provided by ASEAN to Myanmar reaches those most in need at this hospital, while other locations depend on the actual time,” he said.
