Congressmen Mull Cambodian Debt Forgiveness

Left to right: Joseph Cao (R-LA), Eni Faleomavaega (D-American Samoa) and Mike Honda (D-CA) (Photo: Sok Serey, RFA)

By Sok Khemara, VOA Khmer
Original report from Washington
18 January 2010

On a return from a trip to Asia that included Cambodia, US congressman Joseph Cao said in Washington last week he and his delegation are considering writing legislation to forgive Cambodia debt from the 1970s.

Cambodia owes about $300 million to the US from the Lon Nol regime.

Cao, a Republican from Louisiana, told reporters he and his Democratic colleagues, representatives Hike Honda of California and Eni Faleomavaega of American Samoa, want to see that money reinvested “to improve the lives of the Cambodian people.”

All three men visited Cambodia earlier this month.

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