By James O'Toole
The Phnom Penh Post
FOREIGN governments and development organisations, including the UN, have written a letter to the government expressing concern about the recent termination of salary supplement programmes for civil servants.
Minister of Economy and Finance Keat Chhon wrote in a letter earlier this month that the government had decided to cancel the programmes, under which development organisations had been subsidising the salaries of civil servants in range of sectors.
In a letter dated December 17 and obtained by the Post on Wednesday, United Kingdom Ambassador Andrew Mace and Australian Ambassador Margaret Adamson joined with UN resident coordinator Douglas Broderick, World Bank country manager Qimiao Fan and Asian Development Bank country director Putu Kamayana to address the government’s decision.
The writers of the letter said they “are encouraged that the [government] recognises the critical importance of developing and putting in place an efficient civil service”, but that they were distressed by the possible implications of the supplement cuts in isolation.
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