Hun Sen strongly responds to the Thai university revoking his honorary doctorate!
Regarding the Thai university revoking the honorary doctorate awarded to Samdech Hun Sen, the Chairman of the Senate of Cambodia, Hun Sen responded that he is not proud of having diplomas from Thai institutions, emphasizing that he has long discarded these diplomas because they have no value to keep.
"Let me make it clear: I have discarded all three diplomas granted by Thai institutions that I received a long time ago. They are of no value to me and are not worth keeping."
"My intelligence and knowledge did not come from your diplomas or Thai schools. It was the Cambodian people and Cambodian schools that educated me. Let me be clear: If you check the time when you awarded me the diplomas, I never asked for them, and when compared with my service time in my country, it is obvious that your diplomas contributed nothing to my achievements."
"In 1979, at the age of 27, I was appointed as Deputy Foreign Minister. In 1981, at the age of 29, I became Vice Prime Minister and Foreign Minister. In 1985, at the age of 32, I became Prime Minister. I believe you should feel ashamed. If you revisit the time when you evaluated my qualifications and required me to accept your diplomas, I will instruct my office to publish your evaluation of my merits as a reminder, so that you will not forget: you cannot change the past. Let me remind you: you came to award me with a graduation certificate and formal award, not the other way around. Whether to accept them is entirely my decision. I have never been someone who blindly follows orders."
Original: www.toutiao.com/article/1841214365317132/
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