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...Paris agreement had several purposes. One was to remove a large barrier to U.S.-Soviet-Chinese detente. Another was to get the international community off the hook of recognizing the Khmer Rouge as the government of Cambodia; elections would in effect legitimize much of the present administration in Phnom Penh in coalition with other parties. Equally important, the peace plan would separate the Khmer Rouge from China, their principal sponsor; in return for having its clients admitted to the political game in Phnom Penh, Beijing agreed to stop supplying them with weapons. Including the Khmer Rouge in a settlement...
...allow UNTAC access to territory under their control. Their reason appears to be fear of UNTAC's liberating effect on their cadres and villagers. But their standard $ explanation is that they pulled out of the accord because UNTAC failed to insist on the withdrawal of all Vietnamese troops from Cambodia or to take control of the government in Phnom Penh, as required by the accord...
...UNTAC. They argue that the Paris agreement as such is dead, that UNTAC has failed to create secure conditions for elections, that too little has been done to de-mine the country and that there has been virtually no progress in economic rehabilitation. Donors pledged $880 million for Cambodia at a conference in Tokyo in June, but almost none of the money has arrived. If the economy functions at all, it is because Cambodia is still a country of subsistence farmers and fishermen...
...troops negotiating to free them were also briefly detained before all were released. In a separate incident, the Khmer Rouge were holding nine others from the U.N. under a threat of death at week's end. The episodes cast doubts on both the U.N.'s credibility and Cambodia's plans for elections...
...CAMBODIA: The U.N.'s Biggest Gamble...