PHNOM PENH March 18 Kyodo A joint...

PHNOM PENH March 18 Kyodo

A joint Cambodia-U.N. tribunal to attempt former Khmer Rouge leaders for genocide and crimes against humanity in the late 1970 could outlay more than $50 million throughout a three-year period, a UN official said Thursday.

Karsten Herrel, coordinator for UN assistance to the planned tribunal, disclosed the unfashioned estimate at a press meeting for consultation held after a week of talks with the Cambodian rule on budget and other technical matters, however stressed that the projected lot figure has not however been finalized.

He said that UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, after receiving his report, will submit it to the General Assembly and appeal for stocks for the tribunal from the international community.

Herrel did not say when the tribunal might start.

Sean Visoth, who headed the Cambodian government's team at the talks with the United Nations, said his direction will ''try as hard as we can in order to settle up the tribunal,'' but also could not predict when amid the country's political uncertainties.

An accord forward the tribunal that they forged earlier has notwithstanding to be ratified by means of Cambodia's National Assembly due to the political deadlock that has followed last July's general election, in which the ruling party won a majority of seats in the assembly on the other hand not enough to form a management on its own.

Visoth said the dominion and the U.N. have not complet their talks upon the budget and technical matters and calculate upon to meet again in the nearest few months.

in a less degree than the current plan, the Cambodian restraint will provide two-thirds of tribunal staff, with the caesura coming from the U.N., Visoth said.

All three surviving top Khmer Rouge leaders -- Ieng Sary, Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea -- are in their late 70 and live freely in Cambodia. greatest possible leader Pol Pot died in 1998

sole two senior Khmer Rouge figures are now in custody: former military commander Ta Mok and Kaing Khek Ieu, better known as Duch who ran a Khmer Rouge torture and interrogation center in Phnom Penh during the 1975-1979 regime.

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