Minister complains that UN criticism is disrespectful.

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Foreign Affairs Minister Prak Sokhonn on Friday warned the UN’s Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Cambodia against criticizing government decisions, deeming it disrespectful to the nation’s sovereignty.

Mr. Sokhonn was referring to criticisms made by UN OHCHR country representative Wan-Hea Lee last month over the government’s decision to ban opposition leader Sam Rainsy, who has been living in self-imposed exile in France, from returning to Cambodia. Ms. Lee had called on the government to explain its motives, which she called “unjustified and arbitrary,” but added that the government’s explanation would likely be insufficient.

“Such comments have crossed the red line of the UN Charter underlining the respect for sovereignty and non-interference as well as the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961 requiring all official business with the government to be conducted with or through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or other ministry, not through the media,” Mr. Sokhonn said in a letter sent to UN resident coordinator Claire Van der Vaeren on Friday...
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The truth hurts, doesn't it !!!!
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The United Nations is standing behind Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) country representative Wan-Hea Lee after a letter signed by Foreign Minister Prak Sokhon accused her of failing to respect Cambodia’s sovereignty.

Sokhon had taken umbrage at Lee’s public request for an explanation of the government’s decision to ban opposition leader Sam Rainsy from returning to Cambodia.

The letter, sent last Friday, also alluded to OHCHR’s lapsed memorandum of understanding with the Foreign Ministry, declaring the agency’s activities “illegitimate” until a new one was signed, something Sokhon said the government had made a “firm commitment” to.

Rupert Colville – a spokesman for High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein, who was copied on the letter – said in emailed comments yesterday that memorandum or not, OHCHR would continue to operate...
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Popeye wrote:The truth hurts, doesn't it !!!!
Actually it's just an inconvenience.
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Mr H.E. is 1 politician cum dictator i admire, he can talk big and disses everyone but when the time comes he sure know how to beg for aid, it takes a really seasoned (thick skinned) politician to be able to pull this off IMHO :bow: :bow: :bow:
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So when are they going to issue an arrest warrant for UN OHCHR country representative Wan-Hea Lee ?
Shouldn't take that long.
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UN Rights Office Told to Cave or Shut Down
by Michael Dickison | November 26, 2016

The U.N.’s human rights office must renew its agreement to work in Cambodia on the government’s terms by the end of the year or shut down its operations, Foreign Affairs Minister Prak Sokhonn said in a letter to the office’s headquarters in Geneva this week.

In an escalation of simmering tension between the government and the U.N.’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Mr. Sokhonn said that if a lapsed memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the two parties was not renewed by December 30, the government would have “no choice but to execute its sovereign rights on the future of the field presence of the OHCHR in Cambodia.”

Negotiations over the MoU, renewed annually, have been stalled over the government’s insistence that a clause is added stipulating that the U.N. office will respect its sovereignty and not interfere in Cambodia’s internal affairs, interpreted by some to mean the government will not tolerate criticism from the office...

The government has taken particular offense to comments made earlier this month by the OHCHR’s country representative, Wan-Hea Lee, who said an Interior Ministry directive to bar exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy from entering the country appeared to violate his basic human rights.

“No elements of the decision to block the entry of Mr. Sam Rainsy into Cambodia have been brought to light that would allow anyone to assess its reasonableness, which renders the decision unjustified and arbitrary,” Ms. Lee said in an email to The Cambodia Daily...
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To add fuel to the dispute over the alleged violations of Sam Rainsy's human rights, a letter has been sent from Rainsy to the PM, requesting permission to enter Cambodia in order to attend his mother-in-law's funeral this Sunday.
Exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy sent a letter to Prime Minister HE on Friday asking to be allowed to return to Cambodia for his mother-in-law’s funeral on Sunday on the condition that he return to France after the ceremony, a CNRP spokesman said.

However, a CPP spokesman said Mr. Rainsy—who is facing a slew of charges and a conviction widely perceived to be politically motivated—would be arrested if he somehow managed to enter Cambodia despite orders for officials to use any means to keep him out.

Mr. Rainsy’s mother-in-law, Nhiek Tioulong Measket Samphotre, the matriarch of one of the country’s most prominent families during the rule of then-Prince Norodom Sihanouk, died at her home in Phnom Penh on Thursday at the age of 96.

As a result, the opposition leader, who before being officially exiled last month had been living abroad for almost a year to avoid jail time, sent a letter to the premier asking to pay a brief visit to take part in her funeral, CNRP spokesman Yim Sovann said.
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Can anyone mention another citizen, politician or not of any country who was deemed persona non grata by their native country?
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Luigi wrote:Can anyone mention another citizen, politician or not of any country who was deemed persona non grata by their native country?
Umm, Thaksin ?
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