Premier Wants Talks on Tribunal to Resume
Cambodia said it would ask individual nations to help try Khmer Rouge leaders for genocide and crimes against humanity if the United Nations refused to rejoin the process, but diplomats said it was too early to rule out U.N. involvement.
Prime Minister Hun Sen said that he would welcome new talks with the U.N. on setting up a special court and that there was time for it to reverse its decision last week to withdraw from negotiations. The U.N said it pulled out because it could not guarantee the tribunal’s impartiality.
But U.S. Ambassador Kent Wiedemann said the U.N. and the Cambodians were near an agreement.
Start your day right
Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
