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Thursday 4 September 2014

Full text of Hun Sen's speech on corruption [Fight corruption with actions, not with words, Mr. Hun Sen!]

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Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen speaks during the 8th regional conference on fighting corruption in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Sept. 3, 2014. Hun Sen said Wednesday that countries and economies in Asia and the Pacific region needed to work together to fight against corruption.


PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- The following is the full text of Prime Minister Hun Sen's speech on Wednesday at the Eighth Regional Anti-Corruption Conference organised by the Asian Development Bank and the Orgnisation for Economic Cooperation and Development:
Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, National and International Distinguished Guests,

All the Participants!
Today, I am honored and delighted to attend the opening of this 8th Regional Anti-Corruption Conference of the ADB/OECD Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific. This is the first time that Cambodia hosts the Anti-Corruption Conference for Asia and the Pacific.
At the outset, on behalf of the Royal Government of Cambodia, I would like to cordially welcome Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen distinguished national and international guests to this conference. Your participation in this conference will help strengthen our cooperation and joint anti-corruption commitment at both country and regional levels in Asia and the Pacific so as to realize our common objective which is the state role in enhancing public trust, business integrity, social justice and effectiveness of the socio-economic development. Meanwhile, I am also delighted to see the active contribution from Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen who have an important role in fighting corruption in our region.

In fact, this gathering provides a platform for discussion and exchange of experiences, views, perspectives and best practices that can be customised for the anti-corruption agenda in each country. 
We all know that in this era of globalization, crimes including corruption now become a cross-border, regional and global issue. Therefore, the only realistic option for fighting these crimes is to work multilaterally under regional and global frameworks. In addition, we have already moved a step forward with firm anti-corruption commitment aimed to create and maintain favorable and dynamic environment for the development of business and investment sector to ensure long-term and sustainable economic growth for the region and our peoples. 

Looking forward, we have great hopes of fighting corruption as all the priority activities have been included in the agenda of this conference and related meetings. In this regard, I encourage all participants including decision-makers, experts and anti-corruption practitioners who come from various countries to share your opinions, experiences, and lessons learnt in order to enrich discussion in this conference, provide appropriate response to corruption issue and create new opportunities for our region.
We are living in the era of modern technologies and fast information sharing in which events in any country can be shared simultaneously to the whole world. Therefore, each country must adapt to this development. In fact, leaders of some countries care about winning election only and ignore everything else. From experience in many countries including Cambodia in which governments are formed by regular general elections based on the principle of multi-party democracy, such government clearly understands the need to garner trust from the public during its mandate and do their best to serve the people to win future elections. 
The Royal Government of Cambodia, which is led by me, clearly understands the need to protect and maintain security, stability, development and socio-economic prosperity demanded by the people. However, the wishes of our Cambodian people are more than this, they wish to see the government work harder to create jobs, improve education, reduce poverty and inequality and so on.
In fact, government of other countries as well as Cambodian government has been striving for measures to achieve these goals. It is without doubt that a prerequisite to achieve these goals is to fight corruption, which is the topic of our conference today.
The Royal Government of Cambodia of the 5th Legislature remains committed to fighting corruption as mentioned clearly in its political platform. Indeed, in implementing its Rectangular Strategy-Phase III, the Royal Government of Cambodia has further strengthened and enhanced the effectiveness of the three core anti-corruption measures that include (1) strengthening education to stop corrupt practices, (2) preventing corruption and (3) suppressing corruption by referring to court.
To achieve this objective, we will continue with the reforms which have been effectively and fruitfully implemented in previous mandates by keeping improving our anti-corruption campaign to achieve greater success. At the same time, we must also adjust the reform programs that are far from achieving their goals with flexibility and the sense of responsibility. In doing this, all ministries/institutions need to implement respective internal reforms based on the principle of “looking at yourself in the mirror, take shower, self-cleaning and treatment” and work in a more effective, transparent and accountable manner. 
The main thrust the reform decision is to ensure that all ministries/institutions can achieve objectives of the development plan and policy to bring about economic growth, decent living standard, equal opportunity and social justice for all. We believe that this will create an environment conducive to fighting corruption in ministries/institutions, including corruption prevention, strengthening of institutional accountability and capacity, mobilization of participation from the public and private sector, and strengthening of law enforcement.
Additionally, the Royal Government of Cambodia has worked for years to create necessary laws and regulations to tackle corruption. In particular, we enacted the Law on Audit in 2000, the Criminal code in 2009, the Anti-corruption Law in 2010, the Law on Amendment to the Anti-corruption Law in 2011, and the Law on Public Procurement in 2012, and the Law on Combating Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing in 2013 etc. At the same time, the recent enactment of the 3 important laws on the functioning of the judicial branch is another step forward in our reform commitment.
In this connection, the Anti-corruption Unit, which has been established by law with full independence in terms of both financial and human resources, has done an exemplary job, in addition to other monitoring and verification mechanisms of the Royal Government of Cambodia. Despite this outcome, I still encourage this institution to further build its human resources and institutional capacities required for its complicated tasks in the future as we all know corruption scope is beyond national borders. Along with this, I would like to congratulate this institution on its achievement to date, that include education on corruption, promotion of moral integrity, prevention of corruption and law enforcement to tackle corruption.
On a different note, I strongly welcome the recent cooperation initiative by the anti-corruption unit and private sector. Starting from the good cooperation to fight corruption in the private sector and the establishment of “Anti-Corruption Manual for Business in Cambodia”, the private sector has been encouraged to fight corruption in their own entities. In fact, fighting corruption in the private sector not only helps improve competition fairness conducive to business and investment growth, but also promotes responsibility, transparency, and accountability of each entity. 
Recently, many reputable and well-known multinational companies have invested and started their business in Cambodia which proves that Cambodia is now a great place with clean business environment for multinational companies. Given current investment growth, I can say that Cambodia has a very favorable and attractive investment environment. This indeed will send a clear message to doubtful investors that clean environment for business and investment has been actually implemented in Cambodia and they can no longer chose investment path of the past.
Meanwhile, I am still of the view that the public and private sectors must joint hands to fight corruption the anti-corruption policy of the Royal Government will not be fully effective if there is no contribution from the private sector. More importantly, the private sector’s failure to participate means they are not accountable to themselves and the whole society in their operation. 
To this end, it is without doubt that the collaboration between the public and private sectors will play a key role in enhancing not only the effectiveness and efficiency of fighting corruption, but also competitiveness of Cambodia’s investment and business environment within the region and the world.
In addition, other actors such as civil society, media, especially the public also have an important role in fighting corruption. This can be done through public dissemination and education on moral integrity, negative consequences of corruption, and their role in fighting corruption.
In spite of such notable anti-corruption achievement to date, I believe we still have a long way to go because no matter how committed we are and the full utilization of resource to fight corruption both domestically and internationally, corruption still exists and remain a complicated issue. From this, we can see we are still far from achieving our goals and lots of work remain to be done. 
Therefore, this conference will provide a platform for Cambodia and other participating countries to step up their efforts to fight corruption based on four principles: Public Sector-People-Private Sector-Partnership in order to mobilize participation from all stakeholders to “think and implement together and be jointly responsible” to achieve further success.
Once again, I would like to thank all parties involved in the organization of this conference in Cambodia, particularly secretariats of the ADB/OECD anti-corruption initiative for Asia and the Pacific and the Anti-Corruption Unit of the Kingdom of Cambodia for the effort and resources to organize this event. At the same time, I would like to thank and congratulate all the participants for your participation in this two-day conference. 
I believe that this event will provide a great opportunity for us to step up our anti-corruption cooperation for our common benefits through the exchange of knowledge and views on the use of modern devices and anti-corruption practices at national, regional and global levels among experts and practitioners.
In this sense, I wish to encourage all the participants to grab this opportunity to strengthen and expand friendship, understanding and cooperation to achieve the common anti-corruption cause as this networking will be of great benefit for you.
Before ending my remarks, I would like to express my high appreciation to all delegations, decision makers, experts and practitioners involved in fighting corruption from the region and beyond for participating in this conference. I wish you all a pleasant and memorable stay and I hope you will bring back to your countries the good memories of Cambodia: Kingdom of Wonder. May I wish you all smooth conduct of the conference and fruitful results.
Finally, along with the opening of the 8th Regional Anti-Corruption Conference of the ADB/OECD Anti-Corruption initiative for Asia and the Pacific I also would like to wish Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen all the participants the four gems of Buddhist blessing: Longevity, Nobility, Healthiness, and Strength.


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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Khmer folks,

Please don't believe Hun Sen's sweet speech or whatsoever he talked. Hun Sen is still automatically talking like Yuon/Vietnamese communist mindsets and he is still grateful to his Yuon/Vietnamese masters and military commandos to install him a PM or leader of Cambodia and make him have a power as a strong man, but he is still a Vietnemaese/Yuon puppet.

Khmer folks have been suffering and through lots of hardshi for more than 35 years since we was out of the Killing Fields.

Hun Sen is still stuck with his Yuon/Vietnamese masters and military commandos and he loves the power and to be a stupid leader of Cambodia as he currently enjoy. How stupid and dumb Hun Sen is.

Khmer folks are getting smarter and better to be award of the same old and new tricks of his Yuon/Vietnamese masters that Hun Sen relies on.

Khmer loves Khmer and Khmer people stay UNITED and FIRM.

Anonymous said...

Hun Sen is still stupid, dumb and arrogant.

Anonymous said...

Mr. Hun Sen is correct. There are cases the greedy Cambodian businesses will pay bribes to the authorities to gain unfair advantages over the competitors. Cambodian people are corrupted to the bones.

Just look at the South Vietnamese, one of the sick races in the world. They whined about the corrupted officials in Vietnam at the airport taking bribes. I pointed out to them: Superior Whites do not have any problem with bribery at Vietnam's airport.

Then I pointed the fact that South Vietnamese have a habit of cutting the lines: Perhaps the Vietnamese officials are bad as you claim, but for sure, you are very bad because you cut the lines at the airport.

The South Vietnamese replied, "We already paid the bribes, it is our rights to cut the lines." I said, "You cut the lines, you make the Asians to look bad in front of the superior Whites. STOP CUTTING LINES."

North Vietnamese told me that the South Vietnamese have sick genes by mixing with the Khmer. South Vietnamese became stupid just like the Khmer. Most talented Vietnamese are the North Vietnamese.

I estimate that a North Vietnamese is 5 times as smart as a South Vietnamese. And a South Vietnamese is twice as smart as a Khmer.

-Drgunzet-

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