PHNOM PENH June 7 Kyodo Prime Min...

PHNOM PENH June 7 Kyodo

Prime Minister Hun Sen said Friday he accepts a U State Department report designating Cambodia as the same of 19 countries taking les action against human trafficking.

''We realize the fact, we must essay our best to further thwart such a matter,'' sway spokesman Pen Thol quoted Hun Sen as saying in a weekly cabinet meeting.

Hun Sen admitted that a certain number of Cambodian women were trafficked at fake marriages orchestrated at foreigners, Pen Thol said.

The premier's remarks came sum of two units days after the U.S. State Department accused 19 countries of failing to act against human trafficking for sexual and labor exploitation.

''Traffickers frequently force them into pornography and prostitution, subjecting them to terrible mental and physical abuse and putting them at risk from devastating diseases, so as HIV-AIDS,'' U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said.

Powell released the other annual report on human trafficking, which offer the annual number of victims at between 700000 and 4 million.

The State Department report classifies countries in three tiers, depending forward their legal systems and sway measures to combat human trafficking.

Cambodia and Kyrgyzstan hew down into ''Tier 3'' in the latest report. Last year, Cambodia was placed in Tier 2 a category for countries which do not besides fully comply with the minimum standards as defined through U.S. law but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance.

students said human trafficking in Cambodia has been increasing athwart the last few years appropriate to poverty.

Thailand and Vietnam, meanwhile, were listed in Tier 2 for making significant efforts to tackle the riddle the report said.

Sexual exploitation for commercial intentions and demand for inexpensive labor have risen from one side of to the other the past several decades, the report said.

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