SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES FORMATION OF NEW COALITION GOVERNMENT IN CAMBODIA

30 November 1998

Press Release
SG/SM/6810

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES FORMATION OF NEW COALITION GOVERNMENT IN CAMBODIA

19981130 This statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General welcomes the formation of the new coalition Government in Cambodia today, with Samdech Hun Sen as its Prime Minister. He looks forward to the early completion of the process to establish a Senate in accordance with the agreement reached earlier between the Cambodian People's Party and the FUNCINPEC party.

The Secretary-General takes this opportunity to extend his sincere wishes to the Royal Government and the Cambodian people on this auspicious occasion and to express his desire to see Cambodia resume its full role in the family of nations.

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