Former U.S. President Clinton pays visit to Angkor

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton on Tuesday paid a visit to the Angkor Historical Park in Siem Reap province, as the final part of his three-day visit to the kingdom.

People cheered or took photos of him while Clinton toured the former capital of the ethnic Cambodian from the ninth to the 15th centuries and climbed the steep steps leading to the central tower of the Angkor Wat.

Around two million visitors are estimated to come to the hottest tourist draw of the country in 2006, some 230 kilometers northwest of capital city Phnom Penh.

On Monday, Clinton signed a memorandum of understanding in Phnom Penh with Prime Minister Hun Sen, for the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI) to offer support to the Cambodian government to expand pediatric HIV/AIDS treatment in the kingdom.

Clinton arrived in Cambodia on Sunday evening on the final leg of his Asian tour in his dual capacity of the U.N. Secretary General's Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery and Head of CHAI.

Before coming to Cambodia, he had visited CHAI projects in India, Vietnam and Papua New Guinea and tsunami-affected areas in Thailand and Indonesia.

Source: Xinhua