Cambodian Premier cries in press conference

Cambodia News

Phnom Penh: Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday cried in a press conference at the end of the 6-day ASEAN Summit and other related summits as he felt regretful that the country’s late King Farther Norodom Sihanouk had no chance to see the successful summit organized by Cambodia.

The King Father, 90, passed away by heart attack in early 15 October in a hospital of Beijing, China. With a special China flight from Beijing, the King Father’s corpse arrived back to Phnom Penh capital in the afternoon of 17 October. His corpse will be cremated in February 2013.

King, President, and Prime Ministers of the 10 countries of ASEAN have paid their respects to the soul of Cambodia’s Late King Father in the opening summit and some other international leaders went to the Royal Palace to pay their direct respects to his corps.

US President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta who have also been in Cambodia for the summit did ignore their respects to Late King Father who was ousted from the country’s Head of State on 18 March, 1970 with support from American administration.