"For far too long Global Witness has been getting away with presenting totally false information as facts," Ambassador Hor Nambora said
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- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:10:16 -0700 (PDT)
Diplomat calls for end to GW funding
Monday, 20 July 2009 14:03 SEBASTIAN STRANGIO
THE Cambodian ambassador to the United Kingdom has called for
international donors to withdraw their funding of global corruption
watchdog Global Witness until it adopts a more "responsible"
attitude.
"For far too long Global Witness has been getting away with presenting
totally false information as facts," Ambassador Hor Nambora said
Friday in a statement from London.
"It's time the international community made a stand against Global
Witness by refusing to fund the organisation and banning visits by its
representatives."
Hun Sen visited the UK to attend the graduation of his son in Bristol
on Thursday.
The ambassador's comments followed the release of a statement
Wednesday by Global Witness calling on the British government to
revoke the visa of Prime Minister Hun Sen, citing "mounting
international criticism over increasing levels of institutionalised
corruption, repression and human rights abuse in Cambodia".
"Hun Sen's regime has presided over a process of grand corruption
which has seriously undermined poverty alleviation in Cambodia, but
Europe and the UK continue to welcome him and his entourage," Global
Witness campaigner Eleanor Nichol said in the statement.
Global Witness has been a persistent thorn in the government's side,
making headlines in June 2007 when its "Family Trees" report -
alleging widespread involvement of senior government officials in
illegal logging - was banned in Cambodia. The organisation's staff
have been barred from the country since 2005.
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