Cambodia PM refuses to 'bow down' a day before EU trade decision

Bloc has threatened to suspend special trade preferences over Hun Sen's crackdown on opposition and media. FMTNews Cambodia HunSen SEA

The EU has threatened to suspend the Eba trade programme over Hun Sen’s crackdown on opposition and media.

Cambodia benefits from the EU’s “Everything But Arms” trade programme, which allows the world’s least-developed countries to export most goods to the European Union free of duties. “We want to be friends and partners with all countries around the world but if they do not understand us and want to force us, we don’t agree,” Hun Sen said. “We have already tasted countless war, tragedies they had made for us, but we are not dead.”

A document posted on European Parliament’s website suggested that the Eba withdrawal from Cambodia would be on “some products”, and that rice was not included.

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