PHNOM PENH -- Cambodia's recent election, widely panned after the main opposition party was banned from competing, was "free and fair," the country's new prime minister, Hun Manet, told world leaders on Friday in his debut speech at the United Nations General Assembly.
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Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Manet addresses the 78th Session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Sept. 22. © Reuters
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