Cambodian National Assembly President Chea Sim arrives here

(KPL) The President of the National Assembly of the Kingdom of Cambodia, Samdech Chia Sim arrived here yesterday on an official visit to Laos at the invitation of his Lao PDR counterpart Thongsing Thammavong.
An official ceremony to welcome Samdech Chea Sim with his delegation took place at the National Assembly by Mr. Thongsing Thammavong, President of the National Assembly.
The visiting Cambodian President of the National Assembly who is also Chairman of Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) then paid a courtesy visit to President Choummaly Sayasone where he was awarded with gold medal.
An official bilateral meeting to further the co-operation between the two sides was also held in the afternoon. The Lao side was led by Mr. Choummaly Sayasone, Secretary General of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party while the Cambodian side was led by Samdech Chea Sim, Chairman of CPP.Samdech Chea Sim was born on 15th November, 1932 in the province of Svay Rieng. He entered the monkhood when he was young and studied until completing his mid-level religious education. From 1952-1953, he joined in the freedom movement struggling for national independence, and from 1970-1975 in the national salvation movement led by Samdech Norodom Sihanouk voraman, who was President of the Cambodian National Conciliation Front. At this stage, Chea Sim was assigned as a commune headman and then a district headman.
In 1975, together with his colleagues, he led the forces struggling to overthrow the genocidal regime. In 1978 he was appointed as Vice President of the Cambodian United Front for National Salvation. In 1979, he was member of the Cambodian People’s Revolutionary Council and Interior Minister of the State of Cambodia. During 12 years since 1981 has been elected President of the United Front for Fatherland Construction and Preservation, member of the People’s Council of Prey Veng province and also President of the National Assembly of the State of Cambodia.
In the new period of peace and national reconciliation, through the general national elections held under the agies of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia in 1993, Samdech Chea Sim was elected member to the National Assembly for Phnom Penh Constituency. At the preliminary session of the National Assembly of the Kingdom of Cambodia, he was elected President of the National Assembly of the Kingdom of Cambodia.
On November 9, 1993, he was offered a tittle as Samdech by His Majesty Norodom Sihanouk Voraman, the King of Cambodia.