{"id":65555,"date":"2020-04-07T12:19:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T05:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/?p=65555"},"modified":"2020-04-07T12:19:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T05:19:49","slug":"not-the-right-time-to-declare-a-state-of-emergency-yet-cambodian-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/en\/archives\/65555","title":{"rendered":"Not the Right Time to Declare a State of Emergency Yet, Cambodian Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Phnom Penh, April 07, 2020 &#8211;Prime Minister Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen reaffirmed here this morning that it is not yet the right time for Cambodia to declare a state of emergency.<a href=\"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/PMHS-PRESS-C_2020-04-07_11-23-36.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65539\" src=\"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/PMHS-PRESS-C_2020-04-07_11-23-36.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/PMHS-PRESS-C_2020-04-07_11-23-36.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/PMHS-PRESS-C_2020-04-07_11-23-36-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/PMHS-PRESS-C_2020-04-07_11-23-36-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/PMHS-PRESS-C_2020-04-07_11-23-36-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/PMHS-PRESS-C_2020-04-07_11-23-36-696x463.jpg 696w, https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/PMHS-PRESS-C_2020-04-07_11-23-36-631x420.jpg 631w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Cambodian Premier reiterated the statement at a press conference at the Peace Palace, continuing that all sectors have to actively join hands in preventing the spread of COVID-19 pandemic and minimising its impacts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The possibility of declaring a state of emergency to curb the COVID-19 pandemic is only 0.1 percent. The chance is very small, but we need to have a legal mechanism in our hands in case any unexpected thing happens,&#8221; he stressed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We don&#8217;t declare a state of emergency, but please do not travel if not necessary. Please stay home for safety,&#8221; said the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Royal Government has recently submitted the five-chapter of eleven-article Draft Law on State of Emergency to the National Assembly for approval.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The draft law was discussed and endorsed by the Standing Committee of the Cabinet Ministers in a meeting held on April 1, 2020. The draft law was elaborated in accordance with the new Article 22 of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Cambodia stipulating that : \u201cWhen the nation faces danger, the King shall make a proclamation to the people putting the country in a state of emergency after agreement with the Prime Minister and the President of the National Assembly and President of the Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aiming at protecting national security and public order, people&#8217;s lives and health as well as assets and environment, the draft law outlines formalities, procedures and conditions for the declaration of a state of emergency, and necessary measures taken by the Royal Government when the nation is in a state of emergency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As of 07:00 am on April 7, 2020, Cambodia has recorded in total 115 COVID-19 confirmed cases, including 49 Cambodians, 40 French, 13 Malaysians, 5 British, 2 Americans, 2 Indonesians, one Canadian, one Belgian, one Chinese, and one Vietnamese. Of them, 58 have been successfully cured.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since the first case detected in Preah Sihanouk province in late January, the COVID-19 pandemic has now hit 13 provinces and capital of Cambodia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Khan Sophirom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen reaffirmed here this morning that it is not yet the right time for Cambodia to declare a state of emergency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":65539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-65555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-general-news","8":"category-news"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65556,"href":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65555\/revisions\/65556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}