Phnom Penh (FN), August 22 – Kem Rithiseth, Kem Ley’s Brother and President of Khmer United Party (KUP), agreed to work for the "Supreme Council of Consultation - SCC" to ensure peace in Cambodia.

On August 21, 2018, President and Vice President of KUP participated in first ever consultations at Peace Palace that gathered all political parties’ leaders to work on ensuring peace and development on all sectors.

"Khmer United Party shall respect and implement multiparty democracy to strengthen the supreme institutions, namely legislative, executive, and judicial institutions, to become the real rule of law for Cambodian people and Cambodia," KUP wrote in the statement dated on Wednesday.

“Supreme Council of Consultations – SCC”, initiated by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on 21 August 2018, aims to exchange ideas among the 16 political parties to bring about the best policies for the national development.

“SCC will reflect our unity and solidarity in accordance with democracy,” the premier underlined.

According to the government’s spokesman Phay Siphan, SCC’s secretariat and meeting places are based at the Peace Palace. Each party appointed two representatives be the delegation to the SCC; chairman of SCC is shuffled once a month based on political party order on voting list.

SCC holds internal meeting once a month summoned by the chair, and holds meeting with Prime Minister once every six months. Other meetings are compulsory by calls of the premier. SCC’s term will end based on the Royal Government mandate.
=FRESH NEWS