Hun Sen denies trying to separate CNRP

19-May-15

PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday denied that his ruling Cambodian People's Party is trying to separate the main opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party.

CPP doesn't have much time to do so, there are lot of work to do, and has no time to separate others, he said at the graduation ceremony of the students of Royal University of Phnom Penh.  

This comment was made after the Phnom Penh Post, a local bilingual-language newspaper quoted Kem Sokha, acting president of CNRP, as saying that the CPP is trying to split the CNRP. 

"If he [Kem Sokha] said that, it violated the culture of dialogue," he underlined. "Culture of Dialogue: We don't harm them and they don't harm us." 

"Separation or no separation doesn't rely on the breaker," he said.

Last Sunday, Kem Sokha said to CNRP’s supporters in Kampot, a southwestern province that the competitor was trying to separate the CNRP, but he claimed that leaderships of CNRP could not be broken. 

"We could achieve our goal to rescue our nation unless we didn't forget ourselves by learning from the past experience," he said. "We experienced very bad of the past of division that led to loss of nationalists, democrats and strugglers”.

"I thought that separation or no separation depended on ourselves. They wanted to separate Sam Rainsy from Kem Sokha, but we united ", he told the supporters, adding that it was a strong point of CNRP. 

CPP and CNRP issued a joint statement early this month, committing to effectively implementing the 'culture of dialogue'. 

In the joint statement signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen and Sam Rainsy, the two parties are committed to be mutually honest in order to use the culture of dialogue to discuss and resolve peacefully for any national and social issues.

Both political parties agreed to respect and value each other; and  avoid inciting, scolding each other and using bad words such as 'communism authoritarian, Vietnam's puppet,  traitor'... 

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