4 more Australia's refugees agree to resettle in Cambodia
Xinhua, September 11, 2015 Adjust font size:
Four more Australia's refugees, who are being held in an offshore detention camp in the tiny Pacific nation of Nauru, have agreed to resettle in Cambodia, local media reported Friday, citing a senior Cambodian official.
"Four more refugees -- three Iranians and one Myanmar's Rohingyan minority person -- have voluntarily agreed to resettle in Cambodia," local news website DAP reported, quoting Interior Ministry spokesman Gen. Khieu Sopheak as saying.
The spokesman added that a Cambodian delegation would fly to Nauru late this month or early next month to get the details of the new group.
The announcement came just two days after Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen met with visiting Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton to discuss the multi-million-U.S.-dollar refugee resettlement agreement that the two countries signed last September.
After the talks, Sry Thamarong, a spokesman for Hun Sen, told reporters that the two countries vowed to honor the agreement and Cambodia was ready to take in more Australia's refugees.
The first group of four refugees -- three Iranians and one Myanmar's Rohingyan minority man -- arrived in Phnom Penh in June; however, the Myanmar man had recently asked to be sent back to his birth country, saying he wanted to reunite with his family. Endi