Phnom Penh (FN), March 26 – Prime Minister Hun Sen of Cambodia posted a photo on his Facebook page this weekend as remembrance of the first overseas meeting he attended in 1979 in his capacity of the chief diplomat of Cambodia.

Even though he had only one business attire, as Foreign Minister of a very poor country that had just gone through the Khmer Rouge’s genocide, he was strongly committed to strive for peace and national development for both the country and the people, explained the premier in his comments on the photo.

Depicting himself as 27-year-old Minister of Foreign Affairs, youngest minister in the world back then, the photo was taken at the Karachi Airport, Pakistan, when the plane took a stopover for fuel-refill before flying on to Colombo, Sri Lanka, to attend his first overseas meeting, the Non-aligned Movement Meeting that took place in May 1979.

Prime Minister Hun Sen, known to have spent his life in the battlefields since the 70s when he was a teen until late 90s, wrote and expressed his opinion on how hard it was for him to be Foreign Minister. “It was harder than being a soldier fighting in the battlefield. Even though I had only a formal suit, but as a youth, I never give up and keep striving until we have come to the current achievement of peace and development,” wrote the Premier in his Facebook page.
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