10 August 2016
Ith Sothoeuth
VOA Khmer
FILE - Ferries transport villagers, students and civil servants from Phnom Penh to Arey Ksat across the Mekong River as the sun sets in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
Currently the commission has two secretariats, in Phnom Penh and the Laotian capital.
PHNOM PENH —
Cambodia has announced it will shutter the office of the inter-governmental Mekong River Commission in Phnom Penh, relocating its functions to neighboring Laos.
Prime Minister Hun Sen made the announcement on Monday following a meeting last week in Vientiane with his Laotian counterpart.
Currently the commission has two secretariats, in Phnom Penh and the Laotian capital.
Hun Sen said that the minister for water resources, Lim Kean Hor, would oversee the arrangements, which he added were intended to cut down on the amount of travel officials needed to make to fulfill their duties.
“Now if they need to work with the secretariat, they [officials] have to go to Vientiane and return to Phnom Penh, or come to Phnom Penh and return to Vientiane. So we agreed to relocate to Vientiane,” he said.
The commission’s center for flood reduction, however, would remain based in Phnom Penh, he said.
Kean Hor could not be reached for comment.
Te Navuth, secretary general of the Cambodia National Mekong Committee, said a decision about whether to relocate the commission’s 30 staff in Phnom Penh had not yet been made.
The Mekong River Commission was established to manage the Mekong’s water resources sustainably. It has four members: Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam.
1 comment:
according to an article from Australia ( ABC news ) the glacier on top of the Himalayas is melting fast '' from the increase in climate temp '' and it will affect billion of lives.
here's paragraph from it [ Despite its relative anonymity, the Third Pole is vitally important; it is the source of Asia's 10 largest rivers including the Yellow, the Yangzi, the MEKONG [ in caps -- mine ] , the Irrawaddy and the Ganges — and their fertile deltas.
Flows from the glaciers that give the pole its name support roughly 1.3 billion people in China, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan — and the glaciers are melting fast. ]
it seems the author has forgotten thailand , laos and cambodia which the mekong crosses.
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