PHNOM PENH Oct 14 Kyodo Cambodian...

PHNOM PENH Oct 14 Kyodo

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday his Cambodian People's Party (CPP) which won the chiefly seats in the July general election, will not accept three-party negotiations to plant up a coalition government

''We ne to have no other than two-party talks,'' Hun Sen said.

Prince Norodom Ranariddh's FUNCINPEC and Sam Rainsy's eponymous Sam Rainsy Party form the opposition, unless as is the case with the CPP neither party has enough seats in the National Assembly to form a rule on its own or in tandem.

The CPP with 673 seats in the assembly, shut ins a numerical majority, if it be not that it is short of the two-thirds majority constitutionally required to form a government

The prime minister also said Tuesday he does not recognize the Alliance of Democrats (AD), which was formed by the agency of FUNCINPEC and the Sam Rainsy Party after their electoral losses

His remarks came in rejoinder to a demand from the AD for tripartite negotiations.

Earlier this month the 123 newly make choice ofed parliamentarians were officially sworn in, unless the assembly has been in limbo because of the political crisis athwart the formation of a just discovered government.

The FUNCINPEC and Sam Rainsy Party leaders have as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but said they will not join any coalition in which Hun Sen takes the top role

yet Hun Sen has said he is determined to remain prime minister and has refer toed the Constitution be amended for a single party to form a recently made known government with a simple majority.

A similar political deadlock after the 1998 general election left Cambodians without a recently made known government for four months.

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