Chea Sim unlikely to attend CPP congress
CPP President Chea Sim is presently having a medical checkup in Vietnam and may not return to Cambodia in time for the ruling party’s national congress scheduled to begin Friday in Phnom Penh, his chief bodyguard said Wednesday. ... Defense Minister Tea Banh, a member of the CPP’s standing committee, said he believed Mr. Sim was in fact in Phnom Penh—not in Vietnam—but acknowledged that the ruling party’s president would be too sick to attend the congress. ... Asked what this weekend’s CPP congress would focus on, Gen. Banh said the party would look to implement Prime Minister Hun Sen’s September 2013 call for its officials to renew the party’s appeal by “scrubbing” themselves of ills. ...
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