Truong Cang Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Oknha
Truong Cang
Native Name:Central Khmer: ទ្រឿង កាង
Office:Foreign Minister of Cambodia
Term Start:1958
Term End:1958
Successor:Son Sann
Office2:Finance minister of Cambodia
Term Start2:1957
Term End2:1958
Term Start3:1959
Term End3:1959
Office4:Cambodian Ambassador to China
Term Start4:14 May 1964
Term End4:4 January 1969
Predecessor4:Sisowath Sirik Matak
Successor4:Samreth Soth
Office5:Cambodian permanent representative to the United Nations
Term Start5:1972
Term End5:1973
Birth Date:1913
Death Date:1984
Death Place:Paris

Oknha Truong Cang (Central Khmer: ទ្រឿង កាង, also spelled Troueung Kang;[1] 1913 - 1984) was a Cambodian politician and diplomat.

Truong Cang was a Khmer Krom.[2] He served as Minister of Finance (1957-1958 and 1959)[3] and foreign minister (1958) of Cambodia.[4] He was also a member of the High Council of the Throne.

With his efforts, International Court of Justice (ICJ) awarded ownership of Preah Vihear Temple to Cambodia in 1962.[5] [6]

From 1964 to 1969 he was the ambassador to China.[4] In 1967, the Chinese embassy in Cambodia published and distributed Communist propaganda to the Cambodian populace praising the Cultural Revolution, which irritated Norodom Sihanouk. Sihanouk threatened to break off diplomatic relations with China.[7] Truong Cang was about to leave Beijing, but finally was persuaded to stay in China by Chinese premier Zhou Enlai.[8]

From 1972 to 1973 he was the permanent representative to the United Nations.[4]

Truong Cang was regarded as a national hero by Khmer nationalists. In Phnom Penh, Oknya Truong Cang Road was named after him.

Notes and References

  1. https://www.eccc.gov.kh/sites/default/files/documents/courtdoc/00410252-00410260_E3_46_EN.TXT.pdf Written Record of Interview of CHAN Youran ចាន់ យូរ៉ាន់
  2. Book: Britain and Sihanouk's Cambodia. Nicholas Tarling. 270. 9789971697075. July 2014.
  3. Book: Samoth . Sakou . Hommes et Histoire du Cambodge . 2-9524557-3-2 .
  4. Web site: Index Tj-Tz.
  5. Web site: The 50th Anninversary of the return of Preah Vihear temple to Cambodia.
  6. International Court of Justice. Judgments of May 26, 1961, and June 15, 1962. The Case concerning the Temple of Preah Vihear. The International and Comparative Law Quarterly. 11. 4. 1183–1204. D. H. N. Johnson. 755993. 1962. 10.1093/iclqaj/11.4.1183.
  7. Web site: Cohen, Arthur. Intelligence Report–Ten Years of Chinese Communist Foreign Policy. 9 April 1968. Central Intelligence Agency. 18 June 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150924041204/http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/14/polo-18.pdf. 24 September 2015. dead.
  8. Web site: 周恩来外交智慧:曾用一番谈话劝止柬埔寨撤回使馆. zh. 凤凰网.