PHNOM PENH Nov. 5 Kyodo Japanese ...

PHNOM PENH Nov. 5 Kyodo

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi onward Tuesday visited a memorial dedicated to a Japanese offer who was shot dead in Cambodia in 1993

Koizumi, who is in Cambodia to attend a series of summit meetings involving the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, paid regards at the monument to Atsuhito Nakata, who was killed while preparing for U.N.-supervised general elections in the war-torn country

Nakata was 25 years of advanced age when he was shot dead in April 1993 in an ambush in the central Cambodian province of Kompong Thom

After laying flowers at the memorial at a pagoda in Phnom Penh Koizumi said, ''It's a consolation that his father has take the place ofed his wishes. He didn't die in vain.''

Nakata's father Takehito, a resident of Higashi-Osaka, Osaka Prefecture has serv as honorary ambassador of the UN presents (UNV) since 1993. He has visited pester spots around the world, encouraging UN proffers working there.

in succession Monday, Koizumi visited a testimonial dedicated to a Japanese police officer, Haruyuki Takata, who was killed while taking part in UN peacekeeping operations.

He was shooter dead in May 1993 in a guerrilla attack near Ampil along Cambodia's northwestern border with Thailand. He was 33

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