U.N. Chief Urges Cambodia Negotiations
U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar called Saturday for negotiations to end the “suffering, destruction and agony” in Cambodia and prepared to visit refugees from a Vietnamese offensive against rebel camps near the Thai border.
Only sporadic fighting was reported along the frontier Saturday, but the non-Communist Khmer People’s National Liberation Front said in a radio broadcast that a large, tank-backed Vietnamese force was preparing to attack the front’s last camp.
Perez de Cuellar is scheduled to fly to the Thai-Cambodian border today to tour the sprawling refugee camp of Khao-i-dang. About 62,000 Cambodians have recently been moved to the camp after fleeing the fighting.
The U.N. chief, who will also visit Vietnam during his peace mission, said he would “do my utmost to bridge the differences and facilitate the search for a peaceful resolution. “
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