UN secretary general to brief Secur

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UN secretary general to brief Security Council on Cambodia: officials



posted at 13:42 hrs (Bangkok time) 



PHNOM PENH, July 7 -- UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is to brief the 
Security Council on the conflict in Cambodia as fears mount for the 
safety of MPs loyal to the country's first premier, officials here said 
Monday. 

The UN chief will raise the issue of Cambodia, where troops loyal to the 
two feuding co-premiers clashed in two days of pitched street battles in 
the capital at the weekend, in New York later Monday, UN officials said. 

One of the topics to be discussed in the briefing will be the safety and 
security of parliamentarians and ministers loyal to First Prime Minister 
Prince Norodom Ranariddh, who appeared to have lost control of Phnom 
Penh. 

''We are seriously concerned about the safety of these MPs after (Second 
Prime Minister) Hun Sen's speech last night,'' one UN official said 
here. 

Hun Sen said in a two-hour radio broadcast after apparently gaining the 
upper hand in the battle for Phnom Penh late Sunday that MPs who fail to 
split with prince Ranariddh should be replaced by the royalist FUNCINPEC 
party. 

He also rejected mediation efforts by King Sihanouk, Prince Ranariddh's 
father and called for the arrest of the first premier. (AFP)


"THERE WILL BE NO REAL DEMOCRACY IF WE CAN'T GURANTEE THE RIGHTS OF THE 
MINORITY ETHNIC PEOPLE.  ONLY UNDERSTANDING THEIR SUFFERING AND HELPING 
THEM TO EXERCISE THEIR RIGHTS WILL ASSIST PREVENTING FROM THE 
DISINTEGRATION AND THE SESESSION."  "WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING THEIR 
STRENGTH, WE CAN'T TOPPLE THE SLORC AND BURMA WILL NEVER BE IN PEACE."


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