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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:05:33 -0500
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- From: Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
- Subject: CAM: UN assessment of Cambodian mission
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- U.N. PEACEKEEPING CHIEF MARRACK GOULDING TO REVIEW ...
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- PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (JAN. 25) UPI - U.N. Undersecretary General for
- Peacekeeping Marrack Goulding arrived in Cambodia Monday to assess the largest
- peace mission in U.N. history, a spokesman said.
- "He is here for a technical visit, to meet component heads and review the
- work" of the U.N. Transitional Authority in Cambodia, said UNTAC spokesman Eric
- Falt.
- "It's a regular visit. There are 13 peacekeeping operations and he is in
- charge of all of them and it's good to see on the ground what is going on," he
- said.
- Goulding is to spend two days in Phnom Penh before flying to Beijing, where
- Cambodian leaders will discuss plans for the holding of general elections
- without the radical Khmer Rouge faction.
- The guerrilla group, whose brutal regime was ousted from power by invading
- Vietnamese troops in 1979, last June refused to comply with a peace accord it
- signed with the three other factions in Paris in October 1991.
- The U.N. Security Council on Dec. 1 imposed sanctions on the Khmer Rouge to
- force it to honor the Paris accord. The Maoist-inspired group has since
- resorted to kidnaping UNTAC personnel.
- Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan on Thursday reiterated his refusal to
- rejoin the peace process or take part in the elections, scheduled for April or
- May.
- Goulding's trip follows visits by Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas,
- co-chairman of the Paris International Conference on Cambodia, and his
- Australian counterpart, Gareth Evans, aimed at breaking the deadlock in the
- U.N. peace process.
- With 22,000 personnel and a budget of almost $3 billion, the peacekeeping
- operation is the largest ever in U.N. history.
- It is Goulding's second visit to Cambodia since he was appointed head of all
- U.N. peacekeeping operations one year ago. He spent four days in the country
- last June.
-