.Press Release
The full session of the cabinet meeting
06 May 1999
In the afternoon of 06 May 1999 at 15:15 there was a
full session of the cabinet meeting at the Council of Ministers presided over by Samdech HUN
SEN Prime Minister of the Royal Government of Cambodia in order to review and adopt:
- The draft of sub-decree on the organization and functioning of the ministry of water
resources and meteorology.
- The draft of sub-decree on the organization and functioning of the ministry of
women’s and veteran’s affairs.
- The draft of sub-decree on the organization and functioning of the ministry of social
affairs, labor, vocational training and rehabilitation youth.
- The draft of sub-decree on the creation of military council.
- Others.
The draft of sub-decree on the organization and functioning of the
ministry of water resources and meteorology.
The cabinet approved of and adopted the draft of sub-decree which
stipulates that the ministry of water resources and meteorology is granted the mission by
the Royal Government of Cambodia to lead and manage the domain of water resources and
meteorology in the Kingdom of Cambodia. and set policies and strategies to develop water
resources in order to facilitate the exploitations, development and protection in a
sustainable manner, nationally and internationally, consistent with the Royal
Government’s principles.
The daft of sub-decree on the organization and functioning of the
ministry of women’s and veteran’s affairs, and the draft of sub-decree on the
organization and the functioning of the Ministry of Social Affairs, labor, vocational
training and youth rehabilitation .
Considering the two drafts of the sub-decree, the cabinet decided to
send back to the Council of Ministers to reconvene the inter-ministry meeting with the
participation from the ministry of women’s and veteran’s affairs, Ministry of
Social affairs, labor, vocational training and youth rehabilitation, Ministry of National
Defense and Ministry of Health in order to propose a new draft to the council to review
and adopt.
The draft of sub-decree on the creation of military council.
The cabinet approved of and adopted the draft of sub-decree on the
creation of the military council in accordance with the article 02 of the general statutes
of the soldiers of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces. The military council has the duties
to inspect, study, consider in order to facilitate all the paper works relating to
military regulations in conformity with the laws on the general statutes of soldiers of
the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces before submitting to the cabinet for approval.
Others
In the last agenda the Royal Government set out some key measures to be
implemented:
- The Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Interior have to take an immediate
action to provide safety protection for Mr. Duch.
- The Ministers or the Secretaries of state who are in charge of their respective
Ministries or Secretariats of state must be responsible for the new appointment of their
staff. The appointment must be in conformity with the sub decree on the organization and
functioning and in conformity with the co-statutes of civil servant. These appointments,
however, must not be based on political parties, nepotism, and partisanship; on the
contrary they should be based on the knowledge background, skills, especially the work
performances.
- The Ministry of National Defense, Ministry of interior and the local authorities have to
continue to carry out disarmament and increase the inspection and management of weapons
and explosives more fruitfully in order to provide security protection for the people.
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