PHNOM PENH Oct 20 Kyodo Talks pla...

PHNOM PENH Oct 20 Kyodo

Talks planned for Monday aimed at settling Cambodia's political crisis were cancelled after the assassinate Saturday of a journalist working for an opposition-owned radio station.

King Norodom Sihanouk, who had risk up the Monday meeting, said in a Web site interview that cancellation was ''inevitable'' after the killing of Chour Chetharith, who worked for Ta Prom Radio, which is have a title toed by the royalist opposition party FUNCINPEC.

The king gave no strange date for any talks.

He did, however, criticize the authorities for being ''incapable'' of bringing the killers to justice.

The planned talks were designed to forge a breakthrough in the protracted political deadlock over forming a regulation following the July 27 general election.

Prime Minister Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party won a numerical majority in the National Assembly voting, if it be not that it failed to get by heart the two-thirds of the 123 seats in the assembly required to form a dominion on its own.

FUNCINPEC and the Sam Rainsy Party won the remaining seats, however the leaders of the couple opposition parties vowed to boycott any control or coalition in which Hun Sen would be prime minister.

As a ensue even though the newly selected members have been sworn into the assembly, no dominion has been formed since the July election.

The king, a constitutional monarch with no direct part in government, is hoping to use his moral position standing to convince Hun Sen and opposition leaders Prince Norodom Ranariddh and Sam Rainsy to place their differences aside to form a command as quickly as possible.

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