Unofficial translation from French by Luc SârCommuniqué from NORODOM SIHANOUK of CAMBODIA
In the important newspaper “THE CAMBODIA DAILY”, Wednesday, August 29, 2007, I read, among others, the article titled “PM Details KR Victimization of King Father”, by Yun Samean and Erika Kinetz, The Cambodia Daily.
In the article cited above, there was, among others, these lines: “Peter Foster, the ECCC’s UN spokesman, said it was up to the tribunal judges and prosecutors to decide whom to call as a witness and whom to indict. The retired King, he said, could be called as a witness, “but whether he’s bound to show up is another question entirely.”
I have the honor of bringing to the very high knowledge of H.E. Samdech HUN SEN, very respected and beloved Chief of the Royal Government of Cambodia (I am expressing to H.E. Samdech HUN SEN my most affectionate, moved, and admiring gratitude for His noble and so equitable position taken in my favor), and to the respected and beloved Khmer nation, Khmer people, the following:
I invite Mr Peter Forster and other (volunteer) Members of the ECCC’s UN who are in Phnom Penh to come and see me, on Saturday, September 8, 2007, at the Royal Palace, Pochhani Room. Our “conversation” on the “Khmer Rouge and Norodom Sihanouk Affair” (including Talks, Questions and Answers) will last 3 hours (from 9:00 AM to Noon) – at most –.
My Wife (H.M. Queen-Mother Norodom Monineath Sihanouk) will assist in this “conversation” and will participate in it, each time there will be a necessity or usefulness to talk.
This 3 hours (at most) “Conversation” will be filmed on DVDs with sounds, from the beginning to the end, by a Team of TVK (State TV of the Kingdom of Cambodia).
These DVDs will, next, be projected and shown to the general public, during a few successive days in some public parks in Phnom Penh, and, next, they will be shown to the public in all our provinces [one evening in a public park in each of our Provinces, one after another (by alphabetical order of the names of the Cambodian Provinces)].
In our “Conversation”, I will talk, depending on the cases, necessities, usefulness, in Khmer, English, and French.
Following “this”, for me, there will no be “need” whatsoever to see or to present myself in front of the ECCC’s UN.
Done, at the Royal Palace
Phnom Penh, August 30, 2007.
POST SCRIPTUM. – The date of the “conversation” is fixed: Saturday, September 8, 2007. The ECCC’s UN accepts or does not accept this date. If the ECCC’s UN does not accept this date and these hours (from 9 AM to Noon), I do not accept and will not accept to see, nor talk to, nor correspond with the ECCC’s UN anymore.
In the article cited above, there was, among others, these lines: “Peter Foster, the ECCC’s UN spokesman, said it was up to the tribunal judges and prosecutors to decide whom to call as a witness and whom to indict. The retired King, he said, could be called as a witness, “but whether he’s bound to show up is another question entirely.”
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I have the honor of bringing to the very high knowledge of H.E. Samdech HUN SEN, very respected and beloved Chief of the Royal Government of Cambodia (I am expressing to H.E. Samdech HUN SEN my most affectionate, moved, and admiring gratitude for His noble and so equitable position taken in my favor), and to the respected and beloved Khmer nation, Khmer people, the following:
I invite Mr Peter Forster and other (volunteer) Members of the ECCC’s UN who are in Phnom Penh to come and see me, on Saturday, September 8, 2007, at the Royal Palace, Pochhani Room. Our “conversation” on the “Khmer Rouge and Norodom Sihanouk Affair” (including Talks, Questions and Answers) will last 3 hours (from 9:00 AM to Noon) – at most –.
My Wife (H.M. Queen-Mother Norodom Monineath Sihanouk) will assist in this “conversation” and will participate in it, each time there will be a necessity or usefulness to talk.
This 3 hours (at most) “Conversation” will be filmed on DVDs with sounds, from the beginning to the end, by a Team of TVK (State TV of the Kingdom of Cambodia).
These DVDs will, next, be projected and shown to the general public, during a few successive days in some public parks in Phnom Penh, and, next, they will be shown to the public in all our provinces [one evening in a public park in each of our Provinces, one after another (by alphabetical order of the names of the Cambodian Provinces)].
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In our “Conversation”, I will talk, depending on the cases, necessities, usefulness, in Khmer, English, and French.
O o O
Following “this”, for me, there will no be “need” whatsoever to see or to present myself in front of the ECCC’s UN.
Done, at the Royal Palace
Phnom Penh, August 30, 2007.
POST SCRIPTUM. – The date of the “conversation” is fixed: Saturday, September 8, 2007. The ECCC’s UN accepts or does not accept this date. If the ECCC’s UN does not accept this date and these hours (from 9 AM to Noon), I do not accept and will not accept to see, nor talk to, nor correspond with the ECCC’s UN anymore.
