Mr. Pech Sros, president of the Cambodian Youth Party, told reporters on Saturday that if the UN would take a decision to suspend Cambodia's membership following the request made by the dissolved opposition party CNRP, Mr. Sros would lead a group of volunteers from his party to do a mass protest in front of the US Embassy and the UN headquarter in Phnom Penh. To Mr. Sros, the protest would be to preserve the hard work done by the late King Norodom Sihanouk in term of making the Kingdom of Cambodia a member state of the UN in 1955.
"It's so funny that young people, born long after the date when the UN accepted Cambodia as a member state, want to convince other member states to ask the UN to suspend Cambodia's seat at the UN. Cambodia's issue does not belong to a typical political party, it concerns all Cambodian people," wrote Mr. Sros on his Facebook page.
Mr. Sros' statement came after Ms. Kem Monovithya, eldest daughter of the jailed opposition leader Kem Sokha, on Tuesday, called on the international community to appeal to the UN to review and suspend Cambodian's membership if possible.
In her speech in the discussion organized by the US and EU ambassadors to the UN on Tuesday in New York City, Ms. Monovithya said that the dissolution of the opposition party CNRP was a coup similar to which happened in 1997. Following this event, she asked the UN to discuss about this matter in their upcoming general assembly session in January next year.
On Friday, Ms. Monovithya wrote on Facebook stating that she has been filing a complaint on Wednesday to the UN about her father's detention. To her, the detention is arbitrary.
In a video clip posted on her father's Facebook page, she said that she had hired a group of international lawyers to file the complaint to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) of the United Nations Human Rights Council. The lawyers told her on Thursday that the WGAD has accepted her complaint for further international legal measures.
She added that for the next step, the WGAD would review the complaint and contact the Cambodian authority or the Cambodian government for example, to get more information. The WGAD could also send a group of experts to carry out an investigation in Cambodia.
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