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Khmer Rouge Trial Resolution

Nicholas Rostow, U.S. Counsel
Explanation of Vote Before the Fifty-seventh Session of the UN General Assembly, in the Third Committee
New York, New York
November 20, 2002

Released by the U.S. Mission to the United Nations

We would like to thank all those who have worked so hard on a resolution addressing the issue of the Khmer Rouge Trials, including the Japanese and French sponsors of the present resolution as well as the Australian delegation. The United States has been and remains a strong supporter of the establishment of a credible Tribunal to bring to justice those most responsible for atrocities committed during the period of Democratic Kampuchea.

My delegation regrets that Royal Government of Cambodia has not co-sponsored the resolution today. We would have welcomed such a straightforward endorsement of a Tribunal with UN involvement to move the process forward after five years of much difficult work, including the passage of the Law on the Establishment of the Extraordinary Chambers.


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