In response to the resolution written by Senator John McCain and Senator Dick Durbin, Mr. Phay Siphan, spokesman for the Cambodian government, on Wednesday, said that the resolution expresses only some kind of personal opinion made by the two senators. It does not reflect the reality about Cambodia.
"These statements do not correspond to what is happening in Cambodia [...] They are some kind of false statements that are different from what Cambodia is making efforts to achieve in order to obtain a kind of democracy that will purely serve Cambodian interest," said Mr. Siphan.
He also said that what his government is doing is to make Cambodian people the owner of their destiny without any interference from foreigners who should cause civil war among Cambodians.
The spokesman added in any circumstance, his government would not step back in building a pure democracy without interference from outsider, a kind of democracy typically for Cambodian people.
On Tuesday, the two U.S. Senators introduced their resolution urging Prime Minister Hun Sen to «end all harassment and intimidation of Cambodia’s opposition» before the general elections in 2018, and to release Mr. Kem Sokha, a well-known opposition leader who was arrested and accused by Prime Minister Hun for treason following a video clip posted on the Internet.
Regarding the current political situation in Cambodia, the senators said that what the Cambodian government, led by Prime Minister Hun Sen, is doing is to «hobble» the opposition party before the upcoming election in July 2018.
The resolution also asks the U.S. State and Treasury Departments to consider placing all senior Cambodian government officials on a blacklist that prevents them from visiting the United States.
According to the resolution, if the current political environment in Cambodia would not be changed "the United States Government will have no choice but to determine that the 2018 elections were not conducted freely or fairly because the results could not be an expression of the democratic will of the Cambodian people."
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