Two of these pillars, the relationship with the United States The purpose of our conference, “Cambodia and the and the foreign policy challenges of dealing with a new Evolution of Peacebuilding: The Role of the Paris Peace regional landscape fused in our involvement in the Indochina Accords”, was not to dwell on what has happened to wars – in the case of the “American” or “Vietnam” war as a Cambod. [...] Bob Hawke and Prince Norodom Sihanouk in a jovial mood before the peace 1985 Understandably, there was hard bargaining on the very global horror at the deeds of the Khmer Rouge, and the difficult issues of a ceasefire and military demobilisation, easing of the pressure on Thailand after Vietnam withdrew endless back and forth on the composition of the Supreme its troops from Cambodia. [...] The end of the Khmer Rouge genocide and everyone seemed to regard the job as having been done, if the final destruction of its warfighting capability did bring an not with the signing of the Agreements, then certainly with end to the misery of Cambodia’s protracted conflicts, but the peaceful conduct of the UN-administered 1993 election. [...] The situation in On 21 November we flew to Phnom Penh where we were Cambodia had been a source of regional concern ever since to meet the leaders of the State of Cambodia (SOC) and the end of the Vietnam war and there had been continuous the Khmer Rouge - the two major factions. [...] The military role included enough to test the agreements by turning up in Phnom Penh the establishment of a mixed military working group of the and placing themselves in the hands of the UN and Hun Sen, leaders of the main armed Cambodian political factions who had been prime minister since 1985 under Vietnamese under the chairmanship of the force commander to military occupation.
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