Cambodia Rejects UN Request on Relationship Agreement with UN on Proposed Tribunal

On June 30, 2001, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen rejected a U.N. demand that his government sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the U.N. governing its relationship with the U.N. on the proposed tribunal to try former Khmer Rouge leaders for genocide and related crimes. At a cabinet meeting Hun Sen said “(i)t looks like the U.N. is forcing Cambodia to do whatever they want.” Hun Sen’s statement reacted to comments of U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan on June 27, 2001 that the tribunal cannot come into existence until Cambodia signs the MOU…[more]