Preah Sihanouk: The provincial administration held a gathering on the morning of December 3, 2025, to mark the 47th anniversary of the founding of the Solidarity Front for Development of the Cambodian Motherland. Monks and members from all six municipalities and districts of Preah Sihanouk province attended. Participants included provincial council chairman វង្ស ផាណាត and Mang Sineth, a Central Committee member, chairman of the provincial party committee and chairman of the provincial committee of the Solidarity Front for Development of the Cambodian Motherland.
Speaking at the gathering, Mang Sineth, in his capacity as Central Committee member, provincial party committee chairman and provincial Front committee chairman, recalled the founding of the Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation, now renamed the Solidarity Front for Development of the Cambodian Motherland. He said it was founded on December 2, 1978, and issued its 11-point declaration in a liberated area in Cheung Khlu village, 2 December commune, Snuol district, Kratie province. It drew on the broad solidarity of people at home and abroad, with Samdech Heng Samrin, Samdech Chea Sim and Samdech Techo Hun Sen leading the struggle to liberate the homeland and Cambodian people from disaster and the killings under Pol Pot's genocidal Democratic Kampuchea regime, culminating in the historic victory of January 7, 1979. He said the gathering recalled this historic beginning of the rebirth of the nation, homeland and people. It solemnly affirmed that the Front had not only rescued the people from the catastrophe of genocide but had also made a major contribution, alongside the government under the leadership of the Cambodian People's Party, to restoring, building and developing society at every stage, bringing profound changes and progress of which Cambodia could be proud.
The provincial Front committee chairman called on the committee to continue its work and cooperate with the government to preserve peace, political stability, security and public order, and resolutely defend independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity. He urged it to strengthen and expand the Front's organisational structures, improve its management and leadership capacity, and secure more sources of support to sustain and advance its organisational mission and cause.
He also called for support for, and implementation of, principles and policies that contribute to the government's vision of making Cambodia an upper-middle-income country by 2030 and a high-income country by 2050. Internal solidarity and unity in outlook, positions and political thinking must be firmly strengthened and maintained under the principle of retaining the old and adding the new. By: Pai Sokhim
