PHNOM PENH March 13 Kyodo A UN de...

PHNOM PENH March 13 Kyodo

A UN delegation l from Hans Corell, the top UN legal official, arrived in Cambodia upon Thursday for negotiations on bringing surviving former Khmer Rouge leaders to justice for genocide and crimes against humanity committed in the late 1970s

immediately after arriving in Phnom Penh, Corell told reporters his revert to Cambodia was in accordance with a UN General Assembly resolution that mandated UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to restart the negotiations suspended last year.

''There are still a number of issues still outstanding,'' Corell said, if it were not that refused to give further details onward the latest negotiations, which are being seen at many observers as the last chance for the United Nations and the Cambodian management to come to an agreement forward setting up the proposed quasi-international tribunal.

A senior control official in charge of the issue told Kyodo stranges that a key agenda item of the talks [i]or[/i] part of to the other Monday would be the number of court on a levels and judges.

Cambodia will accept a UN proposal to establish up two chambers but wants to confine the majority of judges at the courts, the official said forward condition of anonymity.

In the greatest in number recent draft, the U.N. designs trial and appeals court and leaves the number of critics at each chamber unstated.

if it be not that a Cambodian law on establishment of the Khmer Rouge tribunal that was promulgated in August 2001 says the court will consist of three chambers, with three Cambodian arbitrators and two international arbiters at the Trial Court, four Cambodian and three international justices at the Appeals Court, and five Cambodian and four international umpires at the Supreme Court.

Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday he room for expectations the latest negotiations in Phnom Penh will bring out successful results.

The proces hit a snag in February last year when Annan decided to shake out of talks that began in 1997 saying a trial as planned by means of Cambodia ''would not guarantee the independence, impartiality and objectivity that a court established with the support of the UN must have.''

Last December, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution urging Annan to restart negotiations and to report onward the result of the negotiations by means of March 18.

single 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 within Cambodia.

Khmer Rouge supremo Pol mug died in 1998, while Ke Pauk, a powerful Khmer Rouge commander who was in charge of northeast Cambodia during the 1975-1979 Khmer Rouge regime, died last year.

The Khmer Rouge has been blamed for the deaths of at least 17 million Cambodians during their reign of terror.

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