Topic: Hun Sen
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Wichit Yathip just paid a short courtesy call on me and we had not discussed anything concerning the Thai-claimed overlapping area near the temple because Cambodia has never known where the (1.7-square-mile) area is
Cambodia says troops to remain on border Jun 07, 2011
I declare a new era of cooperation between the government of Cambodia now that Thailand is ruled by the Pheu Thai Party
PM: It's a new era for Cambodia, Thailand Aug 12, 2011
What was going on in the last few years, which I considered nightmarish cooperation between the two countries, is now over. Now we have to start negotiations at a bilateral level in order to ease the tensions
PM: It's a new era for Cambodia, Thailand Aug 12, 2011
Hun Sen (Khmer: ហ៊ុន សែន) (born 5 August, 1952) is the current Prime Minister of Cambodia.
He is one of the key leaders of the Cambodian People's Party (CPP), which has governed Cambodia since the Vietnamese-backed overthrow of the Khmer Rouge in 1979. He was a former Khmer Rouge who escaped to Vietnam before 1979 in order to call for the Vietnamese to overthrow the Khmer Rouge government. Since the restoration of multi-party democracy in 1993, the CPP has been in a coalition with the royalist Funcinpec party.
His current, full, honorary title is Samdach Akkak Moha Sena Padey Dekjo Hun Sen. The title "Samdech" was attached to his name in 1993 by King Norodom Sihanouk. It is only an honorary title and does not give him further powers. He has a glass eye, the result of a wound sustained during the Khmer Rouge offensive against Phnom Penh in April 1975. Hun Sen is currently the longest serving leader in South East Asia and is one of the longest serving prime ministers in the world, having been in power through various coalitions since 1985.
It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Hun Sen."