Phnom Penh (FN), May 18 – Prime Minister Hun Sen told Cambodian students in Moscow, Russia, during a visit and a meeting with them, and after signing a new agreement with Russia on the establishment of an Information Center for Nuclear Energy that Cambodia is striving for human resource development in the field of nuclear energy but does not have any ambition to become a nuclear development country.

“We do not have the ambition to become a nuclear country but we signed an agreement with Russia regarding the use of nuclear energy for the purpose of peace and development, and that it would not happen without faith,” the premier told the students on May 18, 2016.

During the meeting between Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen with Russian Prime Minister Dimitri Medvedev on May 16, 2016, both countries signed eight agreements namely a Treaty on Extradition; an MoU on Cooperation between Cambodia’s Ministry of Justice and Attorney General Office of the Russian Federation; an MoU on Telecommunication and IT Cooperation; an MoU on Cooperation between Olympic Committees of Cambodia and Russia’s; a Joint Statement on Project Proposal for Trade, Economic and Investment Cooperation by 2020; an MoU on the Establishment of Nuclear Energy Information Center; an MoU on the Establishment of Cambodia-Russia Working Group on Cooperative Utilization of Nuclear Energy for Peace; and an MoU on Cooperation between the Ministries of Interior of Cambodia and Russia.
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