ASEAN will observe Cambodian elections

Wed, 20 May 1998, 00:00 WIB | Source: AP

MANILA (AP): Southeast Asian countries will send 75 observers
to the July 26 Cambodian elections to help ensure orderly polls,
an official said yesterday.

Philippine Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs Lauro Baja said
the nine members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN) agreed to shoulder the costs of sending the observers.

ASEAN senior officials met in Manila yesterday to discuss
regional security, India's recent nuclear tests and preparations
for Cambodia's elections.

Baja said the ASEAN poll watchers would be part of a 400-
member UN international monitoring team requested by the
Cambodian government.

Cambodian leader Hun Sen ousted his co-premier, Prince Norodom
Ranariddh, last July, shattering a tense dual premiership formed
after UN-led elections in 1993.

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