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CUBA: CAMBODIAN PM HUN SEN VISIT

(9 Sep 1999) Spanish/Nat Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has arrived in Cuba at the invitation of President Fidel Castro. The five-day visit is aimed at strengthening ties between the two former Cold War allies. Hun Sen was greeted at the airport by Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque. He is expected to meet with Castro during his stay here. The visit to Cuba is part of a tour of North America that includes the opening of the 54th session of the U-N General Assembly and a summit of French-speaking nations in Canada. Cambodia is a former French colony. Hun Sen, who led a communist regime in Cambodia from 1985 to 1991, was a distant ally of Castro's during the Cold War between Soviet-led communist states and U.S led Western democracies. The collapse of communism in Russia and Eastern Europe contributed to the Vietnamese army's withdrawal from Cambodia in the late 1980s and the establishment of U-N sponsored elections in 1993. Hun Sen narrowly lost the election, but regained power by ousting his co-premier in a 1997 coup. He then won a second election in 1998 and claimed legitimate control of the government. The trip to the General Assembly session in New York marks a reaffirmation of Hun Sen's legitimacy after the U.N. Credentials Committee voted last December to restore Cambodia's seat at the United Nations, which was left vacant after the coup. Among Hun Sen's biggest challenges is to keep the peace in Cambodia, which was torn by civil wars for more than a generation. The Maoist-inspired Khmer Rouge waged a five-year civil war against a U-S backed government in the 1970s, and seizing power in 1975. Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia and toppled the genocidal Khmer Rouge government, then stayed a decade in an unpopular occupation, fighting the guerrillas in the jungle. The Khmer Rouge has broken apart since 1996 and the Cambodian government recently has taken control of all its territory for the first time in 30 years. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...