Whereas Prime Minister Hun Sen has been in power in Cambodia since 1985 and is the longest-serving leader of a Southeast Asian country; Whereas the Paris Peace Accords in 1991 provided a vital framework, supported by the international community, to help Cambodia undertake a transition to democracy, including through elections and multiparty government; Whereas the United States, for more than 25 years, has provided hundreds of millions of dollars in development aid and other types of foreign assistance to the people of Cambodia, funding work in areas such as capacity building for civil society and nongovernmental organizations, global health, and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal; Whereas despite decades of international attention and assistance to promote a pluralistic, multi-party, democratic system in Cambodia, the Government of Cambodia continues to be undemocratically dominated by the ruling Cambodia People's Party (CPP); Whereas the leadership of Cambodia's security forces, including all of its top military and police commanders, is part of the core CPP leadership, with seats on the Central Committee of the Politburo of the CPP; Whereas the CPP controls Cambodia's National Assembly and can pass legislation without any opposition, and has often passed laws to benefit its continued rule and to weaken the capacity of the opposition to challenge it; Whereas each of the five elections that have taken place in Cambodia since 1991 was conducted in circumstances that were neither free nor fair, and was marked by fraud, intimidation, violence, and the misuse of legal mechanisms by the CPP to weaken opposition candidates and parties; Whereas in 2015, the CPP-controlled National Assembly passed the Law on Associations and Non-Governmental Organizations (LANGO), giving the Government sweeping powers to revoke the registration of NGOs believed to be operating with a political bias, in a blatant attempt to restrict the legitimate work of civil society