Progress made on Cambodia

Progress made on Cambodia

MANILA (DPA): Southeast Asian foreign ministers mediating the Cambodian crisis made progress in New York toward bringing back the exiled royalist forces, but no agreement was reached, a spokesman for Foreign Affairs Secretary Domingo Siazon said yesterday.

On returning Thursday, Siazon said delegates representing the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) worked hard in between the United Nations General Assembly meetings in an ongoing bid to find a solution acceptable to Cambodian strongman Hun Sen and ousted First Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh.

Although both sides gave positive indications of allowing the 20 exiled leaders of Ranariddh's FUNCINPEC Party to return to Cambodia, Siazon's spokesman Oscar Valenzuela said, "This is not enough. The discussions are still going on."