Sok Khemara, VOA Khmer
Washington, D.C Tuesday, 21 September 2010
“Under international law, governments are generally responsible for the obligations of their predecessors.”Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Monday he will seek debt forgiveness from Barack Obama when he meets the US president in New York on Friday.
Hun Sen and other Asean leaders are expected to see Obama as part of the US-Asean summit, and the Cambodian premier has asked his staff to prepare a detailed argument for the reduction of more than $300 million in debt incurred prior to the Khmer Rouge takeover.
The money, borrowed by the US-backed Lon Nol regime, was “filthy debt,” Hun Sen said, inaugurating a new bridge in Phnom Penh on Monday. “How can filthy debt be repaid? Even a bank would cancel it.”
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