TOKYO, Nov. 21 Kyodo Japan welcom...

TOKYO, Nov. 21 Kyodo

Japan welcomed Thursday a UN panel's adoption the previous day of a resolution sponsored from Tokyo and Paris to restart negotiations with Cambodia upon establishing a tribunal to test former Khmer Rouge leaders for genocide and crimes against humanity, Japan's Foreign Ministry said.

''We believe it is desirable for former Pol stoop leaders to receive to be ascribed justice for their crimes in a form that prizes the will and opinions of the Cambodian dominion and its citizens,'' Foreign Pres Secretary Hatsuhisa Takashima said in a statement.

He then represented hopes that negotiations with the Cambodian regulation would begin promptly.

The resolution adopted by dint of the Third Committee of the United Nations at its 57th session will be vot in succession by the U.N. General Assembly in December and Japan's UN representatives say it is certain to be passed.

The UN and the Cambodian guidance had been working since 1997 onward a plan to establish a tribunal, however the U.N. withdrew from the proces in February after concluding that the court, as it was envisaged on Cambodia, would not be fair and credible.

The resolution solicitations U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to take again negotiations without delay and to judge an agreement with the Cambodian government

The communist Khmer Rouge has been blamed for the deaths of at least 1 to 2 million Cambodians from 1975 to 1979 according to the ministry.

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