PHNOM PENH, Jul 11 (NNN-AKP) – Cambodian Prime Minister, Samdech Techo Hun Sen, yesterday urged NATO member states and U.S. allies, to oppose the U.S. plan to send cluster munitions to Ukraine.
“As the head of the royal government of Cambodia, I would like to continue to call on NATO member states and some U.S. allies, such as the United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, and Canada, all of which are signatories to the Convention on the Prohibition of Cluster Munitions, to take responsibility and participate in preventing U.S. President, Joe Biden and Ukrainian President from using this deadly weapon,” he tweeted.
The United States announced on Friday the decision to transfer to Ukraine cluster munitions, which are banned by an international convention ratified by 123 countries.
Hun Sen said on Sunday that, it will be “the worst danger” for the Ukrainians for decades or even centuries, if those cluster bombs are used, adding that, Cambodia still underwent pain from U.S. cluster munitions, dropped in the country more than half a century ago.
According to Yale University, between 1965 and 1973, the United States dropped some 230,516 bombs on 113,716 sites in Cambodia.– NNN-AKP
