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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:06:25 -0500
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- Subject: CAM: Head of Cambodia's ruling party accuses Khmer Rouge ...
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- HEAD OF CAMBOBIA'S RULING PARTY ACCUSES KHMER ...
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- PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA (JAN. 25) UPI - The head of Cambodia's ruling party
- Monday charged Khmer Rouge guerrillas are threatening the political
- environment ahead of the U.N.-supervised elections.
- "The Khmer Rouge is the source of instability, gravely threatening the
- neutral political environment in the transitional period, and the source of
- terrorism, violence and tragedy to the Cambodian people," Cambodian People's
- Party President Chea Sim said.
- "The government opposes all acts of sabotage and violence which are aimed at
- delaying, prolonging or destroying the peace process," he said in a speech
- opening a five-day session of the National Assembly, of which he is chairman.
- The Phnom Penh regime, installed with the help of Vietnamese occupation
- forces, the Maoist-inspired Khmer Rouge and two non-communist resistance groups
- signed a peace accord in Paris 15 months ago 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 remained in the country after Hanoi's official
- withdrawal from Cambodia in 1989 and demanding more power be transferred from
- the Phnom Penh regime to the four-faction Supreme National Council.
- It has also refused to participate in the U.N.-supervised general elections,
- scheduled for April or May. U.N. authorities have set a deadline of Jan. 31 for
- political parties to register for the elections.
- Chea Sim charged that while the government is making efforts to maintain
- stability in the country in the run-up to the elections, the Khmer Rouge and
- other factions are causing "turbulence" and then blaming the government for it.
- "The international community must take serious and urgent measures to warn
- and condemn factions which are not abiding by the peace accord and compel them
- to honor the accord," Chea Sim said.
- The National Assembly will sit for five days to adopt the 1993 budget, to
- distinguish between state properties and the party's and to decide on duty-free
- zones in southwestern Kompong Som Province, a government official said.
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