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Remarks by Cambodian Prime Minister at the Closing Seminar of the Royal Cambodian Arm Forces

At the Closing Seminar on the achievement of Five-Year Work, 2000-2004, and direction for the Next Five Years, 2005-2009, of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces( RCAF ), Samdech Hun Sen said that the Royal Government of Cambodia expressed its warm and honest appreciation to those achievements attained by all units of the RCAF for its five-year works.

During his address to the RCAF conference last five years, he noticed that the RCAF reform consists of work-axis or two-line work:

Second: the strengthening of remaining forces to be disciplined solders by maintaining at an appropriate number with high quality and capacity based on restructuring of administrative structure; strengthening of leadership, giving order through the chain of command; promoting training, discipline and skill; and reducing size and number of units.

Samdech Hun Sen appealed to all comman- ders, deputy commanders, military officers, non-commission officers and all level of military forces of RCAF to continue their efforts to expand the achievements by concentrating on the following practical works:

Continuing the implementation of Policy Agenda and Rectangular Strategy of the Royal Government, the plan of RCAF reform based on Defence White Paper as a compass for concepts and general status for militant of RCAF.
All soldiers have to be neutral to politics in their duties in which they must not serve any political activity by using its duties and state’s military equipment as stipulated in general status of RCAF.
Promoting training both inside and outside the country as planned in human resources development to transform RCAF to be professional aiming at developing capacity in commanding, strategies, tactics and technical skills.
Continuing to ensure the supplies to RCAF such as uniform, fuel and medicines as determined and based on actual ability of the Royal Government with high respon- sibility and active innovation. It should be combined with cultivations to elevate living standard and health care of each militant.
Keep going to strengthen the national defending arrangement, especially along borders by connecting the national defence to the economic development, paying attention on building up boundary defending armed forces and organizing people living along the borders in order to develop those areas as much as possible.
All institutions and units of the RCAF must keep cooperating with the national police, municipal-provincial headquarters and all level of authorities in order to protect public security and order through contributing to fight against crimes and offences.

Samdech Hun Sen also urged the management of the Ministry of National Defence, the General Headquarters of the RAF, commanders at all levels and soldiers to bring their physical and mental efforts in successfully implementing the targets set forth in the five-year plan 2005-2009.