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REUTERS
PHNOM PENH
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Monday it was"a fact" that the main opposition party would be dissolved as he spoke on the anniversary of the peace agreement that established multiparty democracy.
More than 50 rights groups called on the countries that signed the Paris Peace Agreements in 1991 to reconvene urgently because of the threat to democracy in the Southeast Asian country.
Hun Sen's government has asked the supreme court to dissolve the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) after its leader, Kem Sokha, was arrested on Sept. 3 and charged with treason. The court has yet to rule on whether the CNRP will be dissolved.
"Because they didn't respect the Paris Peace Agreement, the political party will be dissolved in the future, this is a fact," Hun Sen said at a ceremony marking the construction of a new bridge in Phnom Penh.
