Cambodian PM to pay working visit to Thailand next month

Posted on: 24/03/2010

Cambodian PM to pay working visit to Thailand next month

PHNOM PENH, March 23 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen will make a working visit to Thailand next month, Cambodian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Tuesday.

In a statement released Tuesday, the Foreign Ministry said that at the invitation of Thai Prime Minister Abhsiti Vejjajiva, Prime Minister Hun Sen will lead a delegation to attend the First Mekong River Commission Summit which will be held on April 4-5 in Thailand.

The visit will mark Hun Sen's first trip to Thailand in 2010 in spite of border conflict is yet solved.

Hun Sen made his last feet in Thailand in October last year.

According to the statement, Hun Sen will be accompanied by Hor Namhong, deputy prime minister and foreign minister, Commerce Minister Cham Prasidh, Senior Minister and Minister of Environment Mok Mareth, Minister of Agriculture Chan Sarun and Lim Kean Hor, minister of water resources and meteorology.

The statement said that at the end of the Summit, there will be an adoption of a Declaration on Meeting the Needs, Keeping the Balance: Towards Sustainable Development of the Mekong River Basin.

Cambodia and Thailand have faced off with border conflict since 2008 and since then there have been three rounds of military clashes, and there remains military presence from both sides along the border until today.

At the same time, the relations between the two neighbors went on further strain since Thai former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was appointed as Cambodia's economic advisor of Cambodian government and Prime Minister Hun Sen on last October.

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