Source: XinhuaAugust 02, 2010
Cambodia is preparing to have reserve soldiers in a move to reform and perform better military affairs, a military official said Monday.
Gen. Chhum Socheat, spokesman of Cambodia's Ministry of National Defense said the draft decree on recruiting reserve soldiers was approved by the Council of Ministers last Friday and is now awaiting final approval by His Majesty King Norodom Sihamoni.
He said the reserve soldiers are practiced in many other countries around the world and it has nothing related to the border conflict with Thailand.
Chhum Socheat said the main purpose of having reserve soldiers is to apply to military reform and to better perform in military affairs for a long-time vision, and that has nothing behind the border conflict with Thailand.
He said the reserve military will include those contracted soldiers, professional retired soldiers or those who retired from the military before retiring age.
According to the decree, the reserve soldiers will serve five years and if necessary, will extend two more years.
Cambodia adopted the conscription law in 2006 which requires all Cambodian citizens aged 18 to 30 years to enter a compulsory military service.
Gen. Chhum Socheat, spokesman of Cambodia's Ministry of National Defense said the draft decree on recruiting reserve soldiers was approved by the Council of Ministers last Friday and is now awaiting final approval by His Majesty King Norodom Sihamoni.
He said the reserve soldiers are practiced in many other countries around the world and it has nothing related to the border conflict with Thailand.
Chhum Socheat said the main purpose of having reserve soldiers is to apply to military reform and to better perform in military affairs for a long-time vision, and that has nothing behind the border conflict with Thailand.
He said the reserve military will include those contracted soldiers, professional retired soldiers or those who retired from the military before retiring age.
According to the decree, the reserve soldiers will serve five years and if necessary, will extend two more years.
Cambodia adopted the conscription law in 2006 which requires all Cambodian citizens aged 18 to 30 years to enter a compulsory military service.
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Having the Constitutional Mandate for the obligatory military service in our country at this point is an absolute essential. We are having many important issues in our country and along all border that need to be protected and resolved, anything from our natural resources consisting of land, mineral deposits, forests, water, oil, gas, etc..; the issues along our border in constant turmoil; and other issues as national and international terrorism that lurking anywhere at anytime. It is very essential for country to have sufficient number of military personal ready for combat with the readiness of sophisticating military equipments . The bottom line is, we must have the money, and without money, you just can't do anything; and in order for our country to have money, we must have prosperity in economics, gov't and private sectors must working together to create jobs for our people, so the gov't can generating taxes and revenues to use for our defense expenditures and other domestic and social programs. And we reiterate again and again of the "CORRUPTION"; we can and will not have the economic prosperity, when we have every level of position in government organizations being corrupted, we just can't. Our gov't must do alot more, it maybe the ultimate tasks for the gov't, but it must be done very quickly. Remember, our adversaries know our habits and routines, let prove them wrong from now on.
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