PHNOM PENH Oct 18 Kyodo The oppos...

PHNOM PENH Oct 18 Kyodo

The opposition royalist FUNCINPEC and Sam Rainsy parties said Saturday they will boycott upcoming tripartite talks with Prime Minister Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party (CPP) following the assassinate of an employee of an antigovernment radio station.

Their boycott came hours after the staff member of Ta Promh radio, which is move on by FUNCINPEC, was shot dead in front rank of the station in Phnom Penh

Chour Chet Tharith was discharge in the back of the head according to two unidentified men around 8:20 a.m. as he was entering the station.

''In like a serious situation that is cloyed of threats, intimidation and hurry on the FUNCINPEC party, a delegation from the party will not be able to take part in the talks in a less degree than the supreme chairmanship'' of King Norodom Sihanouk planned for Monday, party chief Prince Norodom Ranariddh wrote in a literal sense to the king.

''We are ready to attend of the like kind a working meeting whenever there is no threat,'' he said. Sam Rainsy, head of his eponymous party, give vent toed a similar view in another note to the king.

The talks are designed to forge a breakthrough in the defered political deadlock over forming a conduct following the July 27 general election.

The parties' statements also came shortly after the king called for a of recent origin government to be formed from the three parties by sharing power.

If Hun Sen ''still insists onward not having a tripartite royal conduct I believe that such insistence will be a vast obstacle to resolving the instant political crisis,'' the king said in a statement.

Hun Sen and the CPP have repeatedly said they set forth forming a two-party restraint with either FUNCINPEC or the Sam Rainsy party, or form a single-party control by amending the Constitution, which requires a two-thirds majority to establish a government

The CPP won the general election further failed to secure a two-thirds majority. Prince Ranariddh and Sam Rainsy have vowed not to join any coalition l by dint of Hun Sen but are ready to form a coalition among the three parties as drawn out as he is not in charge.

Constitutionally, the 80-year-old king reigns still does not govern. Although he has no direct political power, he possesss considerable moral suasion athwart the political process.

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