U.N. Refugee Chief Visiting Cambodia
<i> Reuters</i>
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia —
U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata arrived in Phnom Penh on Thursday to assess preparations for repatriation of 350,000 refugees after a settlement ending Cambodia’s 13-year civil war.
She met with Prince Norodom Sihanouk, head of Cambodia’s Supreme National Council, a government-guerrilla national reconciliation body. Today, she is to go to northwestern Cambodia to see transit centers that will receive returning refugees. She will stay in Cambodia until Sunday.
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