KAMPOT: Prime Minister Hun Sen has said that Cambodia succeeded in ending the war by allowing Cambodians to win on all sides, forming a single government that no other country in the world can do.

Speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony of the Kampot-Kep road on Friday morning, 30 December 2022, Prime Minister Hun Sen said that 24 years ago, on 29 December, he received an evening visit from the chief Leader of the Khmer Rouge who then sent a message to the Khmer Rouge rebels ordering them to surrender to the government. The Khmer Rouge leader also sent a message to the Cambodian people stating that Cambodia could now find reconciliation and peace.

Prime Minister Hun Sen said that this is the success of his win-win policy that led to the restoration of peace in Cambodia, bringing Cambodia under the same government after centuries of division.

"On 29 December 1998, Cambodia became a country with one government, one constitution, one king," he said. "Peace is very important to us, so we have to protect it."

Win-win politics are the strategies and principles that bring about the guarantee of social security, national unity, peace, the guarantee of territorial integrity, sovereignty and sustainable socio-economic and political development.

For the past 24 years, the Kingdom of Cambodia has considered 29 December 1998 as the end of the civil war and the attainment of complete peace through win-win politics.