Cambodia reports to continue cooperation with UN on human rights

Cambodian Senior Minister Om Yentieng, president of the Cambodian Human Rights Committee, said Wednesday that the country would continue good cooperation with the United Nations for a better human rights development. Speaking to reporters after a two-hour meeting with visiting Surya P. Subedi, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights to Cambodia, Om Yentieng said as a member of the United Nations, Cambodia, in the status of a sovereign state, always enhanced every UN's policy on human rights. "As a good and active member of the UN, Cambodia will continue to work with the United Nations in developing human rights," he said. In the meeting, Subedi said he wanted to follow up his recommendations made in his previous reports on the judiciary, parliamentary reform, electoral reform and economic land concessions in Cambodia. Meanwhile, Om Yentieng lashed out at Subedi, saying that his reports were groundless and had a trend towards the opposition party. He said Subedi produced the reports by listening to only a very small group of people with opposition tendency, ignoring the opinions of millions of the Cambodian people. Subedi arrived in Cambodia Sunday for a one-week fact-finding mission on human rights situation. During the stay, he had already met separately with a ruling party lawmaker Chheang Von, chairman of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Commission at the National Assembly, Kem Sokha, vice president of the opposition Cambodian National Rescue Party, Im Suosdey, chairman of the National Election Committee, and civil society representatives as well as some victims in cases of human rights violation.