Thursday, March 11, 2010

ASEAN Surin responds to ‘unwarranted’ criticism

(Photo: RICKY YUDHISTIRA, Jakarta Post)
Thursday, March 11, 2010
By Lilian Budianto
The Jakarta Post

ASEAN Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan has denounced as totally out of context media reports quoting him on a military exercise in Cambodia last week.
Surin was responding to a radio address in which Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen lambasted Surin for interfering in the country’s domestic affairs after Cambodian troops fired some 200 rockets last Thursday at an airfield 180 kilometers from the Thai border.
In a press release made available Tuesday, Surin said he had no intention nor was he referring to any particular military exercise in Cambodia, of which he had no knowledge at that point in time.

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