PHNOM PENH, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia needs all forms of foreign military assistance in order to strengthen its national defense capacity and to ensure security and public order, but the country needn’t aid in banned weapons, Deputy Prime Minister Gen. Tea Banh, Minister of Defense, said Tuesday.
“Cambodia always sticks to the policy of neutrality, non-alignment and peaceful life, but the country still reserves its rights to accept foreign military aid such as weapons, ammunition, military training equipment and supplies, and other forms of assistance,” he said during a national workshop to disseminate the law on the prohibition of nuclear, biological and radiological weapons.
At the meantime, he said Cambodia absolutely prohibits the production, acquisition, transfer, use, and stockpiling of nuclear, chemical, biological and radiological weapons in order to ensure peace, safety, and well-being of people as well as to contribute to the protection of security and peace in the region and the world.
The law was promulgated in December 2009.
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