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| Mongolian president Tsakhya Elbegdorg addresses the openning ceremony of Khan Quest 2009 joint military exercise at Mongolian Force Training Center, 65 kilometres west of Mongolia's capital Ulan Bator, Aug. 15, 2009.(Xinhua Photo) |
"The peacekeeping exercise is so important for our armed forces to join with other countries to keep the peaceful stability, security and order in the world," said Taing Sambun, Cambodia's director of Institute for Training Peacekeeping Forces, Mine and UXO clearance. The process of exercise will be lasted for three weeks.
"The Cambodian delegation was led by Gen. Meas Sophea, deputy commander-in-chief of RCAF and infantry commander," he said, adding "we have support from UN for joining this exercise," he noted.
It is a good cooperation between our country and other countries to share experiences and learned experience from each other about the strategies in peacekeeping in a country, he said.
"These forces will be used for reconciliation in a war-torn country, or a country which used to have internal conflict and a post-war country when the war ended," he added.
"The main role of the peacekeeping forces is to join to seek peace, stability and safety for people in the war-torn country," he stressed, adding "this exercise is not the military exercises but for peacekeeping for the UN's peacekeeping forces. It is a second time for Cambodia to participate multinational exercise in Mongolia and we become an active member," he said.
In a farewell ceremony on Friday, Moeung Samphan, secretary of state for national defense called the soldiers "to focus on training and learning from other partner's experiences and to prepare for joining other peacekeeping mission in other places in the future."
Khan Quest is a multinational training exercise with the goal of improving peace support operations. The exercise is hosted by the Mongolian Armed Forces and sponsored by the U.S. Pacific Command.
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| Mongolian president Tsakhya Elbegdorg inspects the guards of honor at the openning ceremony of Khan Quest 2009 joint military exercise at Mongolian Force Training Center, 65 kilometres west of Mongolia's capital Ulan Bator, Aug. 15, 2009.(Xinhua Photo) |
As part of the exercise, troops will conduct field exercises, humanitarian civic assistance training, medical readiness training and will take part in a peacekeeping operations seminar.
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2 comments:
Since the reign of the mighty tyrant Ghangus Khaan, who would have ever thought the barbaric Mongols would ever become a peace loving nation we know today as Mongolia.
Their reign spreaded out almost half of the globe and infected the minds of the nations they conquered and left much of the side effects of simalar personality to that of the Mongols. That side effect is the inheritance of a mindset of divide and conquer to achieve domination for expansion. If something big and strong, infiltrate, seperate, divide, and invade. That is breaking a big chunk into small bits and consume the small bits. This is Mongols'recipe for success. This philosophy was and is quite useful and very successful.
The fall of the Khmer Empire had minor connection with the Mongols. By then, Kublai Khann, a great grandson of Ghangus failed to achieve success of his great-grandfather. It is unclear whether the refugees sought protection with the Khmer were actually ethinic southern Chinese, the Tai/Syam or the work of Kublai Khan men or a converted MongolsChinese. The Tai/Syam were rumor to be tough fighting warriors.
Zhou Daquan, an ambassador to Khmer from China(Mongols' state?) may not be Chinese after all but a Mongol spy. He could possibly wanted to know what was it that made Khmer succeeded in repelling the Chams/Champa invasion ending in Khmer conquering Champa. Soon enough, in 14th century rebellions broke out in the Khmer Empire, the kingdom of Sokhutai/Ayuttaya(Siem) emerged creating a foundation of the modern day Thailand. The emergance of Siem slowly keeping Khmer divide and at war. At the same time, Annam(Vietnam) is slowly work its way into Champa after Khmer withdrew. In mid 17th century Champa was swallowed up by Annam and again slowly worked it way into Khmer who is now a much smaller and weaker kingom.
History have proven over and over again, a nation that WAS strong WAS weaken by its own weight, a nation that IS strong WILL BE weaken by its own weight. LEARN FOR THE PAST FOR FUTURE PEACE.
Well-informed comments of high academic standards.
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