EU Continues to Provide 43 Million Euros in aid to Cambodia

EU has pledged to continue its support to Cambodia in three different fields with over 43 million Euros, Ouch Borith, Secretary of State, said yesterday at a press conference at the end of the seventh Joint Committee Meeting between the Cambodian government and EU. “The EU will provide some 20 million Euros to support Cambodia’s agricultural field, 15 million Euros for decentralization strengthening and US$8 million for public financial management,” he said. For the three-day meeting, he added, both governments had constructively conversed about all aspects of relations between Cambodia and EU by putting foci on Cambodia’s reform and the progress of bilateral relations on trade and investment cooperation on natural resource development and management plus the impacts on human rights sector in relation to economic land concession and other concessions. (Rasmei Kam.)