Kenya Requests for Direct Flight to Cambodia

Kenya is interested in creating a direct flight between the country's Nairobi and Phnom Penh in order to promote mutual tourism and economic activities as his country has seen high potential in Cambodia's cultural tourism, the Bangkok-based Ambassador of Kenya to Cambodia Richard Titus Ekai said Wednesday during a meeting with Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Sok An, Minister in charge of the Council of Ministers. Mr. Ek Tha, Spokesman for Council of Ministers revealed that the Kenyan Ambassador raised 2 additional proposals, purchasing milled rice from Cambodia and wishing to learn about Cambodia’s experiences in terms of negotiation with international company which is now doing businesses in oil and gas exploration in Cambodia. Responding to the Ambassador’s requests, DPM Sok An welcomed the plans proposed by Kenya and called for further discussion between Kenya’s airline and Cambodia’s civil aviation authority. Regarding milled rice purchase, he added, Cambodia would facilitate all the processes and asked Kenya to contact Cambodia’s rice exporters. Concerning oil exploration sector, Cambodian government is now discussing with the U.S’s Cheveron, having been exploring oil and gas in A block of Cambodia’s gulf and it’s probably 1 or 2 more years and the first time for Cambodia to receive benefit from its own oil and gas. (Rasmei Kam. Sep. 28, 2012)