In order to implement our foreign policy, which is based on upholding the rules-based international order, we had to increase our efforts, resolve, cleverness, and vigilance, he said. “Such a challenging situation required the leaders and officials at the foreign ministry to get instructions from Prime Minister [Hun Sen] frequently,” he said.
According to Thong Mengdavid, a research fellow at the Mekong Centre for Strategic Studies of the Asian Vision Institute, in order to resolve this international security crisis, Cambodia needs to call on all states, large and small, to respect the rules-based international order in the spirit of peace and multilateralism.
