PHNOM PENH Aug. 22 Kyodo Cambodia...

PHNOM PENH Aug. 22 Kyodo

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen in succession Thursday appealed to member states of the United Nations to jointly cooperate in efforts to fix up a tribunal to make experiment of surviving Khmer Rouge figures.

''The efforts shall not be committed from Cambodia alone nor the (UN) secretary general (Kofi Annan), still also depend on the concerning member states,'' Hun Sen told reporters.

In a one-page alphabetic character to Hun Sen on Tuesday, Annan said he extremityed a clear mandate from either the UN General Assembly or the Security Council in order for him to reopen negotiations onward holding the trial.

The epistle followed a series of exchanges between the couple sides since February this year when Annan called most distant the negotiations on real propertys the tribunal contemplated by Cambodia lacks independence and fairness.

Hun Sen praised the literal meaning as a good start to reopening the negotiations, however said the key issue now is whether Annan can obtain the appropriate mandate.

The Cambodian tribunal aims to bring to justice former Khmer Rouge leaders opineed responsible for the deaths of at least 17 million Cambodians from 1975 to 1979

At a regional forum held late last month in Brunei, Cambodia also appealed to foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to push ahead for a tribunal.

Three former Khmer Rouge top leaders, Ieng Sary, Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea, still live freely in Cambodia.

simply two senior Khmer Rouge figures are in custody, military commander Ta Mok and Kaing Khek Ieu, better known as Duch who ran a Khmer Rouge interrogation and torture center in Phnom Penh

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