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- From: Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
- Subject: CAM: Khmer Rouge still refuse to rejoin UN peace process
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- 01/21
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- KHMER ROUGE LEADER REITERATES REFUSAL TO TAKE PART ...
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- BANGKOK, THAILAND (JAN. 21) UPI - The leader of the Khmer Rouge reiterated
- Thursday his refusal to rejoin the U.N. peace process and participate in
- forthcoming elections in the war-wracked country, one of the co-chairmen of the
- Paris conference on Cambodia said.
- Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas met with Khmer Rouge leader Khieu
- Samphan amid a flurry of diplomatic activity aimed at breaking the deadlock in
- the Cambodian peace process.
- "I told him the interests of a comprehensive, just and therefore durable
- solution ... the interests of the (Khmer Rouge) themselves and the wider
- interests of Southeast Asian nations would be better served if they were inside
- the process rather than outside," Alatas told a news conference.
- "I regret to inform you that Khieu Samphan ... remained of the view that ...
- they would not as of now participate in the elections," Alatas said.
- Alatas and French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas are co- chairmen of the
- Paris International Conference on Cambodia, which drafted the October 1991
- peace agreement.
- The Phnom Penh regime, installed with the help of Vietnamese occupation
- forces, the Maoist-inspired Khmer Rouge and two non- communist resistance
- groups signed the accord, aimed at ending 13 years of conflict in Cambodia.
- But the Khmer Rouge dropped out of the peace process in June, charging
- Vietnamese troops secretly have remained in the country after Hanoi's official
- withdrawal from Cambodia in 1989,.and demanding more power be transferred from
- the government to the four-faction Supreme National Council.
- It also has refused to participate in U.N.-supervised elections scheduled
- for April or May. U.N. authorities set a Jan. 31 deadline for political parties
- to register for the elections.
- Presidential elections also are scheduled, but no date has been set.
-