On January 27, 2014, at the Senate, H.E. Ms. Men Sam An, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Relations with National Assembly (NA), Senate and Inspection presided over a consultative meeting on mechanism to formulate national policy to control alcohol consumption.
The meeting was organized by the 8th Senate Committee with assistance from IOGT. 120 representatives of National Assembly, Government, Academic and Civil Societies organizations participated in the meeting.
H.E. Senior Minister Ieng Mouly, Chair of the National AIDS Authority also attended this consultative meeting. The meeting was aimed at exchanging ideas to determine national policy including in four important points as follows:
- Increasing tax on alcohol consumption
- Prohibiting alcohol commercial advertisement
- Limit access to the alcohol
- Limit age of alcohol consumers.