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SRP MP Mu Sochua met with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton11 September 2009
By Moeung Tum
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
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SRP MP Mu Sochua is to meet US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this Friday in Washington DC. The meeting will be focused on human rights violations and violations on freedom of expression in Cambodia currently.
Mrs. Mu Sochua made this declaration 4-5 hours after she gave her testimony to the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission on 10 September 2009, in Washington DC.
Dr. Pung Chiv Kek, President of the human rights group Licadho, and Moeun Tola, Labor Director for the Community Legal Education Center (CLEC) NGO, were also invited to provide their testimonies.
Mrs. Mu Sochua indicated that in all these meetings, she wants to push the US government, in concert with the leaders from other democratic countries, to show a clear stance on the problems of human rights violations and the violations of the freedom of expression in Cambodia currently.
Mrs. Mu Sochua said: “We already showed this situation to the US Congress this afternoon and I believe that they [US Congress] paid close attention to the difficult situation which is getting worse, in particular, regarding the resolution of human rights through the law and the rule of law.”
On Friday also, Mrs. Mu Sochua will meet with a number of US Senators to discuss these issues also in order to obtain their intervention in the resolution of these problems.
Mrs. Mu Sochua made this declaration 4-5 hours after she gave her testimony to the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission on 10 September 2009, in Washington DC.
Dr. Pung Chiv Kek, President of the human rights group Licadho, and Moeun Tola, Labor Director for the Community Legal Education Center (CLEC) NGO, were also invited to provide their testimonies.
Mrs. Mu Sochua indicated that in all these meetings, she wants to push the US government, in concert with the leaders from other democratic countries, to show a clear stance on the problems of human rights violations and the violations of the freedom of expression in Cambodia currently.
Mrs. Mu Sochua said: “We already showed this situation to the US Congress this afternoon and I believe that they [US Congress] paid close attention to the difficult situation which is getting worse, in particular, regarding the resolution of human rights through the law and the rule of law.”
On Friday also, Mrs. Mu Sochua will meet with a number of US Senators to discuss these issues also in order to obtain their intervention in the resolution of these problems.
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