Phnom Penh (FN), Sept. 27 – The spokesperson of the Cambodian Human Rights Committee has thoroughly reviewed the report of Ms Rhona Smith, UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Cambodia, presented to the 42hd Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, and welcome the presentation of various positive developments in all areas of human rights in Cambodia, including engagement and partnership with civil society, human rights reporting mechanisms, and collaboration with international human rights mechanisms, economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights as well as rights of specific group and person, such as women, children, persons with disability, ethnic and indigenous people and LGBT persons, etc., in particular, the Royal Government's efforts to maintain peace and social stability development of the country and efforts to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

The spokesperson of the Cambodian Human Rights Committee wishes to express his regret that groups of the former Opposition Party and their alliance, including a small number of civil society organisations and a handful of media, have taken the opportunity to exaggerate and dispel some of Ms Rhona Smith's concerns over the political situation in Cambodia and to form a political agenda so as to launch a malicious attack against and criticism of the Royal Government, which is not the genuine intention of the Special Rapporteur and the United Nations Human Rights mechanisms,” the Cambodian Human Rights Committee wrote in its statement dated Friday.

Read the statement below:
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