PHNOM PENH, Oct 5 (AFP) - Norway's Crown Prince Haakon met Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen Wednesday during a three-day mission in the kingdom in his role as a UN goodwill ambassador focusing on fighting poverty.
Prince Haakon, who arrived Monday, told reporters he discussed development issues and relations between the two countries during the meeting with the premier and the national assembly president Prince Norodom Ranariddh.
"There are of course no easy solutions to these complex problems," he said.
During his visit Prince Haakon, 31, will meet people living with HIV/AIDS, garment workers and youth leaders.
The prince was appointed a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Development Program in October last year and is campaigning to halve the world's poverty by 2015, a UN goal. He has already visited Tanzania in his new role.
Cambodia, devastated by almost three decades of war that only formally ended in 1998, is one of the poorest countries in the world and the UN says that urgent action is needed to meet the UN target.
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