CNRP/PA PRESS RELEASE: Mass Rally at UN HQ, NYC on August 19, 2013



PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release

Contact: Chea Meas

Tel: (215) 833-3669

 

11:00 AM  EST, Wednesday, August 14, 2013

To: All Media and Public at Large

From: CNRP Chapter of Pennsylvania

 

Re: Rally at United Nations Headquarters, New York City

 

 

Based on the heated situation in Cambodia today, such as problem related to human rights, political instability and recent countless voting irregularities, we the Cambodia National Rescue Party’s Chapter of Pennsylvania would like to invite all colleagues, friends, compatriots and the public at large to join the upcoming public mass rally to urge the United Nations and International Community to pressure the Cambodian government to honor its commitments to the 1991 Paris Peace Agreement and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and to end the on-going erosion of civil liberties and systematic human rights violations. The rally will be held on Monday, August 19, 2013 from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM at United Nations Headquarters in New York City, 1^st Avenue and East 47^th Street.

 

Cambodia is systematically moving away from democracy and from its international obligations signed under the Paris Peace Agreement over two decades ago on October 23, 1991. Therefore, we call upon the United Nations and the Signatory Countries to honor their commitments by taking the necessary actions to enforce their agreements concerning Human Rights, Sovereignty, Independence, Neutrality and the National Unity of Cambodia.

 

We encourage all Khmer compatriots to put our differences aside, donate one day of your precious time to join hand and fight for democracy of our motherland. Our country needs you. United we stand!

 

 

Agenda:

 

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM: Gathering, informing assignments and the mission of the rally.

 

1:30PM - 2:00 PM: Rally begins. Singing national anthem and speakers from various communities express their concerns regarding past and current issues in Cambodia which violated the Paris Peace Agreement and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the Cambodian government.

 

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM: Communities’ representatives deliver petitions to United Nations.

 

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Discuss future mission, then end.

 

 

Note: We provide free transportation to and from Philadelphia/United Nations. For bus schedules please contact Chea Meas at (215)833-3669 or Sarorn Seng at (484)802-0053.