ASEAN due to make joint statement o

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Subject: ASEAN due to make joint statement on Cambodia

Monday July 7 7:36 AM EDT 

ASEAN due to make joint statement on Cambodia

JAKARTA, July 7 (Reuter) - The seven members of the Association of 
Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) were consulting on Monday and were 
expected to issue a joint statement on Cambodia, Indonesian Foreign 
Ministry spokesman Ghaffar Fadyl said. 

``We are now in consultations and very soon we will issue a joint 
foreign ministers' statement on the Cambodian issue,'' he told Reuters. 

Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas earlier said there was a need for 
a quick meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers to discuss the situation in 
Cambodia, which many fear is teetering on the edge of civil war. 

Cambodia, together with Laos and Burma, was due to be admitted to ASEAN 
at an annual foreign ministerial meeting being held in Kuala Lumpur at 
the end of this month. 

ASEAN groups Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Brunei 
and the Philippines. 

Cambodia's Second Prime Minister Hun Sen appeared firmly in charge of 
the capital Phnom Penh and the surrounding area on Monday after ousting 
forces loyal to his rival Prince Norodom Ranariddh in two days of 
fighting. But Ranariddh vowed from France that he would lead resistance 
from inside and outside Cambodia. 


"THERE WILL BE NO REAL DEMOCRACY IF WE CAN'T GURANTEE THE RIGHTS OF THE 
MINORITY ETHNIC PEOPLE.  ONLY UNDERSTANDING THEIR SUFFERING AND HELPING 
THEM TO EXERCISE THEIR RIGHTS WILL ASSIST PREVENTING FROM THE 
DISINTEGRATION AND THE SESESSION."  "WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING THEIR 
STRENGTH, WE CAN'T TOPPLE THE SLORC AND BURMA WILL NEVER BE IN PEACE."


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