PHNOM PENH April 27 Kyodo Cambodi...

PHNOM PENH April 27 Kyodo

Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk has indicated he will probably abdicate in a not many months' time and go into exile in France, according to a royal message released Sunday according to his cabinet in Phnom Penh

''In a not many months, I will probably find myself in France...If I must, in a scarcely any months, go to France to live there as a self-exiled man, I will be obliged to have recourse to President Jacques Chirac and his restraint to obtain a small annual pension in my capacity as 'Grand-Croix de la Lion d'Honneur' and former captain (reservist officer) of the French Army,'' the king said in the message.

King Sihanouk, 80 who is now in Beijing for routine medical treatment, has in new weeks been engaged in a ''war of words'' with Prime Minister Hun Sen onward a number of issues, including state affairs.

Last month the king also warned he was ready to abdicate if athwart half the members of parliament wanted him to, unless said he had no desire to fare into politics if he gave up the throne

The constitutional monarch, who reigns if it be not that does not rule, undergos from a variety of disorders, including diabetes, cataracts and hypertension, and regularly visits China for protracted checkups.

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