§ Mr. VazTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on Government policy in regard to the current activities of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia; and what action will be taken to ensure that human rights initiatives are maintained in that country.
§ Mr. GoodladWe deplore the Khmer Rouge's refusal to co-operate with the United Nations Transitional 259W Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) and the attacks on United Nations personnel and ethnic Vietnamese. We believe that the results of the election last month show that the vast majority of the Cambodian people reject the Khmer Rouge and its ways.
We co-sponsored the resolution at the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva in February requesting the United Nations Secretary General to appoint a special representative to co-ordinate the United Nation's human rights presence in Cambodia and mandating the centre for human rights to run a human rights programme in Cambodia after the withdrawal of UNTAC. The former President of the Philippines, Corazon Aquino, has been nominated special representative.