US Senator seeks further sanctions against Hun Sen

The new draft, proposed by the United States Senate from the two parties on February 9, sought additional sanctions. Another point against Prime Minister Hun Sen and delaying talks to clear US debt, Cambodia owes more than $ 500 million in session Social Dance.The draft, drafted by senators and former US Presidential Candidate Lindsey Graham in collaboration with Senators, Dick Durbin, Ted Cruz, Ben Cardin and Patrick Leahy are aiming to implement the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements. Success.The new draft, named Cambodia's responsibility and the return of trade in 2018, will remain valid until the government Cambodia allows the CNRP to resume and release all political prisoners in Cambodia.The draft will also ban US aid to the Cambodian government and support the US government's decision to close a government visa. Cambodia that damages the process of democracy in Cambodia. The draft also allows the US to freeze assets of Cambodian government officials who have been turned off visa and require all US financial institutions to announce The assets of those officials and prohibits Cambodia from borrowing US debt, except for humanitarian purposes.

Lindsey Graham says in a statement released on Feb. 9 that Cambodia's democracy has died because of the government's influence. Chinese Communist Party. He said that the bill was a response to China's desire to colonize Cambodia and to let Cambodians know that the United States would Continue with them and support the aspirations of a country with solid foundations of democracy and rule of law. Regarding the new law, Prime Minister Hun Sen's government has yet to respond, on February 10.Hong Lim also wrote a letter to the Australian Government this week asking Australia to punish the Cambodian government. As the United States and the European Union have done. So far, the United States has blocked Cambodian government visas from coming to the United States and suspended voting aid, while Europe has suspended all voting aid. Also
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