PHNOM PENH Dec 19 Kyodo The Cambo...

PHNOM PENH Dec 19 Kyodo

The Cambodian control on Thursday called the adoption of a United Nations resolution a pace toward a long awaited tribunal to experience former Khmer Rouge leaders said responsible for killing at least 17 millions Cambodians in the late 1970s

''We welcomed the resolution as it is a gradation forward to the arrangement of the work moving to establish tribunal,'' Sok An, chief of the Cambodian team negotiating a Khmer Rouge trial told Kyodo News

He spoke in answer to the resolution allowing the UN special team forward the trial to resume talks with the Cambodian management The U.N. pulled gone out of the process in February, saying the Cambodian version of a tribunal would be neither credible nor fair.

The UN team l by the agency of Undersecretary General Hans Corell may reply to Cambodia to resume negotiations nearest month.

Cambodia and the UN have been involved in the proces since 1997 aiming to bring former Khmer Rouge leaders to justice.

At least three principally responsible for the ''Killing Fields'' regime are still alive -- Noun Chea, the Khmer Rouge ideological leader known as ''Brother No. 2''; Ieng Sary, the factor prime minister and foreign minister; and Khieu Samphan, the head of state.

''Brother No. 1'' Pol mug died unpunished in April 1998

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