By R.Ravichandran
PHNOM PENH (Cambodia), Nov 20 (Bernama) — Peace has allowed Cambodia to develop its economy, and to stand on the right path towards sustainable and inclusive socio-economic development, said Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen.
Hun Sen said Cambodia has emerged from a low-income country to a lower-middle-income country in 2015, and has now set goals to become an upper-middle-income and high-income country by 2030 and 2050 respectively.
He further said that the Southeast Asian country has enjoyed full peace since 1998 after its internal conflict had been successfully solved under a win-win policy pioneered by its own initiative.
“Since peace fully resumed, Cambodia has played an active role in preserving world peace by contributing and sending peace-keeping forces and demining teams to other countries under the framework of the United Nations,” Hun Sen said.
Hun Sen said this in his message in the programme book, on the occasion of the Asia Pacific Summit 2019. The summit from Nov 18-21, is themed, themed “Addressing the Critical Challenges of Our Time: Peace, Reconciliation, Interdependence, Mutual Prosperity and Universal Values”
He described the summit as important and relevant for the current global situation, where peace, harmony, and prosperity are being threatened by existing and emerging challenges as well as threats from natural catastrophes, climate change, environmental destruction, poverty and terrorism.
The Asia Pacific Summit 2019 is hosted by the Royal Government of Cambodia and co-organised by the Universal Peace Federation (UPF) and the Civil Society Alliance Forum. The UPF is an NGO in General Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC).
More than 800 delegates from 48 countries from the Asia Pacific region and other parts of the world are attending the summit. They include current and former heads of state, parliament speakers, religious leaders, women leaders and representatives of academia, business, youth, arts, media and other civil society organisations
— NNN-BERNAMA