PHNOM PENH March 14 Kyodo Cambodi...

PHNOM PENH March 14 Kyodo

Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk and his wife Queen Monineath left for Beijing forward Friday to receive medical treatment, as advised according to their doctors.

Shortly before his departure, the king said he would reply to Cambodia before the July 27 general election with equal reason he can ''stay with his people'' and support them.

The 80-year-old king, who endures from a variety of disorders including lung riddle diabetes, cataracts and hypertension, regularly visits China for long checkups.

Last month he enjoin off a planned trip to Beijing because of what he called the ''serious'' political situation in Cambodia and calls from a number of make anxioused Cambodians urging him to remain in the country

Constitutionally, Cambodia's king reigns if it were not that does not govern.

Last Friday, King Sihanouk publicly declared he is ready to abdicate if a majority of parliamentary members want him to do in this way but he stressed that he would not ask any political role in Cambodia flat if he abdicated.

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