Cambodian PM Hun Sen expresses condolences over Hugo Chavez’s death [These two are birds of the same feathers]

Supporters accompany the hearse carrying the coffin of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez while leaving the Military Hospital to the Military Academy, in Caracas, where he will lie in state for three days. Picture: AFP 

Souce:Xinhua 
Publish By Thomas Whittle
Updated 08/03/2013

PHNOM PENH, March 7 — Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday expressed a deep sympathy to the government and people of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela over the death of President Hugo Chavez.

“I am extremely saddened to learn that His Excellency Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela, passed away on March 5,” Hun Sen said in a condolence letter to President Interim of Venezuela on Thursday.

“Hugo Chavez will always be remembered as a leader who devoted his life for the well-being and progress of his people,” he said.

“On this very sad moment, on behalf of Cambodian government and people of Cambodia, I would like to convey to Your Excellency and through you to the bereaved family and people of Venezuela my deepest heartfelt condolences for this loss of a great leader and hero of the Venezuelan people,” the premier said.

Hugo Chavez died of cancers at the age of 58.