PHNOM PENH Nov. 28 Kyodo Foreign ...

PHNOM PENH Nov. 28 Kyodo

Foreign Minister Hor Namhong told reporters Thursday Cambodia picks further talks on a Khmer Rouge genocide trial be in Cambodia rather than at the united Nations.

Cambodia wants the UN to recur to negotiations in Phnom Penh Hor Namhong said.

Japanese Ambassador to Cambodia Gotaro Ogawa told reporters the UN General Assembly will debate the trial plans nearest month.

Japan and France were cosponsors of a 10-point draft that asked the UN secretary general to recommence negotiations, ''without delay, to infer an agreement with the guidance of Cambodia, based on previous negotiations,'' to place up a tribunal to experience former Khmer Rouge leaders in genocide and crimes against humanity charges.

Japan and France are among 27 dominions called the ''Group of Interested States'' that support resumption of talks forward establishing the tribunal.

The UN and the Cambodian dominion have been working since 1997 to establish a tribunal, further the U.N. withdrew from the proces in February after concluding that the court, as envisaged at Cambodia, would be neither fair nor credible.

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