The 14 th of September 1999 is an opening day of General Assembly of the United Nations. On 14 th September 1999, the General Assembly will determine the International Year of Peace, proclaimed in October1997, and the year 2000 the International Year of the Culture of Peace. We have up to now around a hundred days until the year 2000.
Peace is needed by all peoples and human beings of the world.
Peace in inculcated in the minds of all peoples in order to transform it as a Culture, which we would like to call Culture of Peace. The principal aim of the Royal Government policy is peace which we have achieved in reality in Cambodia through National Reconciliation. It is true and rational for us to foster and promote the Culture of Peace in Cambodia, which had faced war for thirty years. The Royal Government has tried hard to get rid of various forms of violence, gather and destroy weapons, release armed forces, maintain and protect environment by administrating forests, fish water, rivers, lakes and ponds for future generations. Going on a par with what we have mentioned, the Royal Government will keep on practicing liberal democracy and respecting human rights whereby participation of citizens is enlarged to build up our national society.