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The Foreign Ministry of Cambodia

Sokhonn Prak

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation

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Education
1972 | 1975

  • Law Studies in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

1989

  • Diploma of the international Institute for the training of journalists in Budapest

1993

  • Diploma of the international Institute of public Administration in Paris (International Relations Section)

2001

  • Diploma of the center for Diplomatic and Strategic Studies in Paris

Work experience
September 2018 l Present

  • Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

April 2016 | September 2018

  • Senior Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and international Cooperation
  • Chairman of the national Coordination Committee for UN-Peace Keeping Operations Mission
  • Chairman of Information Research and Analysis Group of the Office of the Council of Ministers.

Sept. 2013 | April 2016

  • Minister of Posts and telecommunications
  • Vice-President of the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA)
  • Chairman of the national Coordination Committee for UN-Peace Keeping Operations Mission
  • Chairman of Information Research and Analysis Group of the Office of the Council of Ministers

Dec. 2011 | 2012

  • Prexsident of the Eleventh Meeting of States Parties to the Anti-personnel Mine Ban Convention (11MSP)

2009 | 2013

  • Minister Attached to the Prime Minister
  • Advisor to the Prime Minister
  • Secretary of State of the Office of Council of Ministers
  • Vice-President of the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA)
  • Chairman of the National Coordination Committee for UN-Peace Keeping Operations Mission

2004

  • Advisor to the Prime Minister
  • Secretary of State of the Office of Council of Ministers
  • Second Vice-President of CMAA
  • Chairman of the National Coordination Committee for UN-Peace Keeping Operations Mission

2003

  • Advisor to the Prime Minister
  • Deputy Secretary-General of the Royal Government of Cambodia

1999

  • Ambassador to France, Belgium, Holland, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, EU  and the Office of the UN in Geneva

1993 | 1998

  • Advisor to the Prime Minister

1993

  • Spokesman of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces
  • Chief of the Army‘s Information Service

1986 | 1992

  • Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Army News- paper

1979 | 1986

  • Journalist of the Army Newspaper

1979

  • Entry into Army Service

Rank in Army

  • 4-Star General

Decorations
• Medal of National Merit, Mohasereiwaddh of Kingdom of Cambodia

  • Medal of the National Defence and the Protection of Homeland
  • “Officier dans l‘Ordre National de la Légion d‘Honneur”

Languages

  • Khmer (native)
  • French
  • English