Strengthening National and Regional Cooperation on Small Arms Control: UNRCPD Deepens Engagement with Cambodia

Start Date: Mar 18 2025

End Date: Mar 20 2025

Organiser's Website: https://www.unrcpd.org/strengthening-national-and-regional-cooperation-on-small-arms-control-unrcpd-deepens-engagement-with-cambodia-and-asean/

Location: Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Meeting Hosted By: UNRCPD, Ministry of Interior of Cambodia

From 18 to 20 March 2025, UNRCPD conducted a series of high-level meetings with senior officials of Cambodia’s Ministry of Interior in Phnom Penh. The meetings were chaired by senior officials of the Ministry of Interior and the ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting on Transnational Crime (SOMTC) Cambodia Secretariat, including H.E. Pol. Lt. Gen. Phath Sophanith, Secretary General and Chair of the SOMTC-Cambodia Secretariat, H.E. Pol. General Por Phak, Secretary of State and SOMTC Cambodia Leader, and Ms. Vireak Vicheakta, Deputy Secretary General and Permanent Deputy Chair of the Secretariat. Also present were senior technical officials such as Pol. Maj. Gen. Sao Bunleap, invited experts from the Mines Advisory Group (MAG), namely its Regional Director for Asia-Pacific, and from the Conventional Arms Programme of UNIDIR.