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19 Oct 2018

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European Union External Service

Remarks by High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini at the press conference following the Europe-Asia Summit

… With Cambodia, we have taken the decision to start the process of temporary withdrawal of the EBA trade preferences. I have discussed with the Prime Minister … Hun Sen … what our expectations are for what should happen for this not to go on - in particular the improvement of the political, democratic climate. I would say that there is a lot of concern in Europe, but not only in Europe, about the dissolution … of the main opposition party and in general terms the narrowed democratic space for political opposition and civil society.

We discussed this. I cannot say that we found solutions to any of these issues but ...

We agreed that our teams would work together, starting in these days and in the weeks to come,…

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