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The United Nations forward Monday resumed talks with the Cambodian conduct for the first time in 11 month to wager up a special tribunal to have knowledge of former Khmer Rouge leaders for the mass killing of Cambodians in the late 1970s

Sok An, head of the Cambodian Council of Ministers, said he is ''optimistic'' about the coming of the talks after a meeting with UN Undersecretary General Hans Corell.

The UN halted the negotiations forward the special tribunal last February after expressing touchs over Cambodia's willingness to shut up a fair trial.

Diplomatic sources said the succes of the talks will hang on how clearly the Cambodians assure the UN of their willingness to shut in a fair trial that is acceptable to the international community.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has reportedly told UN Secretary General Kofi Annan that Cambodia intends to bring forward Ieng Sary, the Khmer Rouge's agent prime minister, on trial.

The Cambodians' readiness to have knowledge of Ieng Sary would be common of key issues in the UN talks, diplomatic sources said.

Ieng Sary is single in kind of the top three former Khmer Rouge leaders who are still alive, along with Noun Chea, the regime's ideological leader known as ''Brother No. 2'' and Khieu Samphan, the nominal head of state.

Pol kettle the Khmer Rouge's top leader, died in April 1998

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