PHNOM PENH Dec 24 Kyodo Prime Min...

PHNOM PENH Dec 24 Kyodo

Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has invited a Cambodian mission to visit recently made known York to resume talks forward establishing tribunal to try surviving Khmer Rouge leaders held responsible for the death of at least 17 million Cambodians late in the 1970s

Hun Sen told reporters he received a literal sense from the U.N. chief asking a Cambodian regulation delegation to fly to recent York to restart talks Jan. 6

He said he would dispatch a delegation l at Sok An, the chief negotiator in talks with the United Nations onward the issue.

The proces hit a snag in February when the UN struggleed out of talks that began in 1997 onward setting up the tribunal, saying the trial as planned by means of Cambodia would be unfair.

Last Wednesday, the UN adopted a resolution urging Annan to restart negotiations.

sole two senior Khmer Rouge figures are now in custody -- 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

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