PHNOM PENH May 14 Kyodo Nuon Chea...

PHNOM PENH May 14 Kyodo

Nuon Chea, the Khmer Rouge's former No. 2 leader, said Wednesday his health worries him more than an international tribunal approved on the United Nations to test former Khmer Rouge leaders.

''I am more pertain toed about my health than the tribunal because I am quite antiquated now,'' Nuon Chea, 77, told Kyodo recently made knowns from Pailin, a former Khmer Rouge fastness some 370 kilometers northwest of Phnom Penh

Nuon Chea, ideological chief and president of the parliament in Khmer Rouge regime, be affected bys heart attacks and high line pressure.

He said he would not withstand the progress of the tribunal and will run after the decisions of the Cambodian restraint and the U.N., adding he is ready to appear before the court.

The UN upon Tuesday adopted a resolution endorsing the creation of an international tribunal to attempt former Khmer Rouge leaders below an agreement concluded by the UN and the Cambodian sway in March.

With the approval of the General Assembly, the agreement, signed by the agency of U.N. legal affairs chief Hans Corell and Cambodian Senior Minister Sok An forward March 17, will be not absented for ratification by the Cambodian National Assembly before it goe into force.

The agreement calls for setting up a two-level international tribunal, with Cambodia appointing three connoisseurs to a five-judge trial chamber and four justices to a seven-judge supreme court.

The Khmer Rouge has been blamed for the deaths of at least 17 million Cambodians during its 1975-1979 rule

and nothing else two senior Khmer Rouge figures are in custody -- former military commander Ta Mok and Kaing Khek Ieu, better known as Duch who ran a Khmer Rouge torture and interrogation center in Phnom Penh

Three top former Khmer Rouge leaders -- Ieng Sary, Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea -- live freely in Cambodia. leading leader Pol Pot died in 1998

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