Hailing the 63rd Anniversary of Cambodia’s United Nations Membership

"... Cambodia has become a member of the United Nations on 14 December 1955, ten years after its foundation ... in the last eleven years, we have sent nearly 5,000 Cambodian blue berets, 202 of whom are women, for UN peace keeping missions abroad ..."

Samdech Techo’s Message on Facebook, 14 December 2017

Hailing the Human Rights Day, 10 December

... Human rights start from right to life. We overthrew the genocidal regime of Pol Pot to liberate the people and country. Primarily people are entitled to rights to life, to food, to education, healthcare and politics ...

Samdech Techo Hun Sen,
Impromptu at the Inauguration of Buildings and
Achievements, Battambang Province, 9 December 2010

1 "... Four groups of people received treatments in the Calmette Hospital ... firstly, people certified as poor; secondly, those holding equity cards; thirdly, those holding the cards issued by the National Social Security Fund - all of the three groups receive medical checkups and treatments free of charges. The fourth group of people are those who pay for their checkups and treatments ... I am thinking that maybe in the future I may seek medical checkups and treatments in the country too ..."

2 "... According to late November evaluations by the National Bank Council with foreign experts, Cambodia has scored a 7.1% growth ... with an inflation rate of 2.5% ... as always, the Hun Sen's strategy has been to maintain political stability in one hand and macroeconomic stability in the other ..."

3 "... Stemming from right to life, we are putting into practice process of democracy ... peace has to come first, then democratics process and human rights respect follow, while democracy and human rights supplement keeping peace ..."

Samdech Techo Hun Sen,
Graduation Ceremony of Cambodian University of Specialties (CUS), 11 December 2019.

"… Donation contributed by charitable people to modernize Calmette Hospital as of the morning of December 6, 2019 reached US$ 70,191,994 and KHR 32,110,000. Together with the US$ 30 million funding from the Royal Government, the total amount adds up to US$ 100 million. (The amount shall) help the Calmette Hospital's efforts to become a more efficient (medical) polytechnic center for the treatment of our people ..."

Samdech Techo Hun Sen, SPM’s Facebook Page, 6 December 2019.

• ... I urge national and international journalists who are working in the field of journalism in the Kingdom of Cambodia to carry out professionally duties in journalism and to further professional competence, techniques in both information production capacity and in-depth international level information analysis to respond to the evolution of technology and the increasingly competitive market; moreover, to further explore measures to prevent and neutralize false information, which is a serious threat to individual rights, national security and political stability in our country ..."

"… The journalists and the media in general have a crucial mission to actively contribute to peacekeeping, political stability, sustainable national development, the protection of the Cambodian people, and the promotion of democracy and human rights in Cambodia ..."

Excerpt from Samdech Techo's Letter to the 16th Editors' Forum under the theme
"Cambodian Media at the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution", 6 December 2019.