Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Information Minister: law on access to information can be completed by the end of 2016

Phnom Penh: Technical Training Team officials draft Bills on Access to Information was completed after being held for two days to discuss the positive feedback to the inputs for preparing draft Bills on Access to Information. The training comes after the Minister announced to launch website access to information already. In the closing ceremony of the training course for the technical team designed the draft law on access to information in the morning of February 02, 2016 in Phnom Penh, Khieu Kanharith minister Minister said capacity building for officials technical skills on the job drafting Bills on access to information will get the knowledge and experience more and more in the use of technology for collecting comments and choosing from the public and citizens to be included in the draft to meaningful and meaningful enough.


  The minister stressed that "the debate is to give importance to collect and select the opinions of all stakeholders This feature is part of capacity building for officials Ministry to gain knowledge, new experiences to build legal future quality effective service to the Supreme real benefit to society and the people to participate in national development."   He minister said that the draft law was submitted for debate in the Technical Working Group drafting the Draft Law on Access to Information to be finished after taken to convene an international ministry which has ministries - institutions of the Royal all after meeting international ministries, then this law shall be submitted Cabinet officials and forwarded to the National Assembly for approval later this year or in the middle of next year.   Ms. Read Le Mel Evans (Anne Lemaistre) Representative UNESCO Representative in Cambodia, confirmed that "the training, the Technical Working Group this really benefits a lot in promoting the ability officials designed Bills on access to information to help spark a collection of comments from residents and turned about these sounds included in the draft, and can tailor content to get better."   Chhay Sophal from UNESCO has suggested that this is the 1st and in the process of drafting the Draft Law on Access to Information, which has been collecting feedback from stakeholders and citizens that come from workshops in the community to be included in the laws and in drafting legislation relevant to the needs of local people. But the design draft if the government or ministries are designed draft did not ask for and collect comments from residents included in the content, while the legislation introduced and comprehensive implementation, it did not hurt more. Please specify that the draft law on access to information is in the stage of drafting, which the Ministry of Information Open to participants give feedback from all stakeholders, both civil society organizations, the public and the citizens to participate in improving and incorporate new ideas more web based access to information www.a2i.info.gov.kh to the law while leaving implementation to acceptable to all.

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