Phnom Penh (FN), Feb 16 – Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen reiterated three purposes of his visit to Myanmar, speaking to Singaporean foreign minister Vivian Balakrishnan.

Singaporean foreign minister paid a courtesy call on the premier at the Peace Palace on Wednesday evening.

The three purposes are (1) to end violence through ceasefire; (2) to provide humanitarian relief to the needy people of Myanmar without discrimination; (3) to promote dialogue.

During Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen’s recent visit, Myanmar’s senior general Min Aung Hlaing informed Cambodian premier Hun Sen that the Myanmar government had declared a five-month ceasefire with all Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) until the end of February 2022 and decided to further extend it until end of 2022. He assured the facilitation of the visit of the special envoy to Myanmar and to meet with all parties concerned including EAOs taking into account of the prevailing situation in Myanmar.

As a rotating chair of ASEAN 2022, Cambodian premier Hun Sen strongly reacted to the remarks of the Malaysian foreign minister Saifuddin Abdullah who criticized the premier’s visit to Myanmar in an interview with Aljazeera.

In this regard, premier Hun Sen believed that the Malaysian foreign minister does not possess the arts of diplomacy.
=FRESH NEWS