
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, June 11, 1993                   TAG: 9306110039
SECTION: NATL/INTL                    PAGE: A-12   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA                                LENGTH: Short

CAMBODIAN FACTIONS OK UNITED ARMY

Commanders of the armies of three major parties that contested last month's election agreed Thursday to unify their troops under a supreme commander answerable to an elected government.

Selecting the supreme commander is part of the establishing of a government, which begins Monday when the newly elected 120-member constituent assembly meets for the first time.

The three commanders - from the Phnom Penh government and the opposition FUNCINPEC and Buddhist Liberal Democratic parties - met Thursday with Lt. Gen. John Sanderson, the military commander of the U.N. mission in Cambodia.

U.N. spokesman Eric Falt said the three chiefs emphasized their support for the peace process and said they hoped the Khmer Rouge would join the arrangement.

All four parties signed the 1991 peace pact authorizing last month's U.N.-supervised election, Cambodia's first multiparty contest in more than two decades.

Final results, released Thursday, showed FUNCINPEC winning 58 seats, the Phnom Penh government's Cambodian People Party taking 51, and the Buddhist Liberal Democrats winning 10. The tiny Molinaka party won the remaining seat. The Khmer Rouge boycotted the election.

Premier Hun Sen said Thursday his administration would stay in power until the May 23-28 election was thoroughly investigated. His government spoke of major irregularities, but the United Nations declared the polls free and fair. - Associated Press

by CNB