Cambodia hails US ties, seeks relief on China-linked sanctions


US. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meeting Cambodia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn at the State Department in Washington DC on May 13, 2022.- AFP

PHNOM PENH (Bloomberg): Cambodia said ties with the US had improved significantly and it expects the Biden administration to lift sanctions imposed over its ties with China "very soon,” a senior minister said on Wednesday (May 25).

"We’re pushing very hard,” Kao Kim Hourn, Cambodia’s minister delegate to the country’s long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen, said in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, referring to negotiations over sanctions.

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