| The past ten years have marked Cambodia's | | | | relations with the neighbouring countries and |
| integration into regional, international organizations and | | | | international relations with other far-reaching countries |
| other inter-governmental organizations; just to name | | | | almost never existed, plus its protracted warfare, |
| a few: ASEAN (Association for South East Asian | | | | Cambodia does need to boost its diplomacy and not |
| Nations), AFTA (Asian Free Trade Area), WTO | | | | just plain diplomacy, but "quality" diplomacy to benefit |
| (World Trade Organization), ILO (International Labour | | | | from globalization. |
| Organization), etc (I do not count other organzations | | | | So what does "diplomacy" means? Not referring to |
| that we have been members long ago). Cambodia's | | | | the diplomatic theories, written by world famous legal |
| membership with regional and international | | | | publicists, in my personal sense and opinion, diplomacy |
| organizations ranks from economics to politics. | | | | means "Negotiation skill for national interests". |
| Indeed, countless positive points: economic growth, | | | | Because of Cambodia's unacceptable diplomatic |
| poverty reduction, human resource development, | | | | history, present non-existence of diplomatic education |
| etc, together with unavoidable social defects: gaps | | | | in the undergraduate or graduate schools, lack of |
| between the rich and poor, the employed and the | | | | diplomacy and international-relation specialists, how |
| unemployed, and unequal growth between cities and | | | | can Cambodia diplomats abroad argue for Cambodia's |
| rural areas, etc, have been seen from this | | | | national interests. |
| globalization aspect. | | | | Drawing from all above facts, without delays, |
| Cambodia is urgently needing one tool to survive in | | | | Cambodia is currently in need of quality diplomacy. |
| the globalization: Quality Diplomacy. | | | | This paper would serve as "revealing fact, rather |
| History has presented that Cambodia rarely had good | | | | than initiating problem-solution. |