The Prime Minister of Cambodia, Samdech Techo Hun Sen, said that the ASEAN Plus Defense Ministers' Meeting has an increasingly important role to play in promoting mutual understanding through open exchanges of views.
The remarks were made when Samdech Techo presided over the opening ceremony of the 9th ASEAN Defense Ministers' Meeting at Sokha Hotel, Siem Reap this morning, November 23, 2022.
Samdech Techo Hun Sen said the meeting was taking place amid growing uncertainty, rapid change, complexity and uncertainties of global security and the economic environment. Intense competition and geopolitical tensions, the continued handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, the food and energy crisis, the global economic downturn and the war created a "terrible situation.
Samdech Techo stressed that the promotion of mutual respect, mutual understanding, mutual trust and common interests for peace and prosperity is an important foundation.
He added that as a small state, Cambodia has always strongly supported the multilateral mechanism that is open and transparent, as well as the strengthening of the ASEAN-led mechanism or the ASEAN-led regional order and adherence to international law. In particular, the UN Charter. Samdech believed that other ASEAN members have the same views on this point.
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