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...plan is the last, best hope to escape the maze. For the U.N., it is a test case of whether the world organization can adapt to the new demands of the post-cold war world. As Claude Cheysson, a senior member of the European Parliament, said recently in Phnom Penh, "UNTAC must not fail. It cannot fail." But what constitutes success...
...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...
...accepted in the Paris agreement of October 1991, they have refused to allow UNTAC electoral teams into their areas, sabotaging some of the principal ambitions of the U.N. plan -- the disarming of factions and nationwide elections. Hun Sen, the Prime Minister of the Vietnam-backed administration in Phnom Penh, says that "the Paris agreement is no longer balanced. It is like a handicapped person." But while accepting some UNTAC requirements, his administration also harasses the U.N. effort...
...party claims that its supporters are harassed, intimidated, even killed; most observers in Phnom Penh believe Hun Sen's administration is behind the attacks. Hun Sen denies that. Although he is an authoritative figure who will no doubt hold a senior position in any postelection coalition, his power is limited by hard-line communists within his government and a security apparatus not entirely under his control...
...until there is once again a functioning government. There is a name for such an administration: trusteeship. There is authority for it under the U.N. charter as well as a mechanism within the bureaucracy called the Trusteeship Council. In Cambodia, the U.N. is already overseeing the government in Phnom Penh while it tries to disarm the warring factions and prepare the ground for elections next year...