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• Cambodia to sign UN pact on tobacco control: ministry 

Cambodia will sign on to a UN tobacco control agreement, the health ministry said, adding that it had asked Phnom Penh authorities to begin dismantling the city's prominent tobacco advertising.

"The prime minister has said he will sign" the World Health Organisation's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, secretary of state for the ministry of health Ung Phirun told AFP Wednesday, without giving details. . . .

A WHO spokesman told AFP it had not been formally told of the decision.

"This would be a welcome move as a very positive indication of the government's intention to take action on tobacco control, but we have to make sure that ratification of the treaty follows signature," he said.

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