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Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea

The Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea (CGDK, Khmer: រដដភភបលចចរររកមមរជ

បបជធភបតតយយ, Odthaphibeal Chamrouh Kampouchea Brachathibtey); renamed to the National
Government of Cambodia (NGC, រដដភភបលជតភននកមមរជ, Rodthaphibeal Cheate nei Kampouchea) from
1990, was a coalition government in exile composed of three Cambodian political factions: Prince
Norodom Sihanouk's Funcinpec party, the Party of Democratic Kampuchea (often referred to as the
Khmer Rouge) and the Khmer People's National Liberation Front (KPNLF) formed in 1982, broadening the
de facto deposed Democratic Kampuchea regime. For most of its existence, it was the internationally
recognized government of Cambodia.

Coalition Government of

Democratic Kampuchea (1982-90)

រដដភភបលចចរររកមមរជបបជធភបតតយយ

Odthaphibeal Chamrouh Kampouchea Brachathibtey

National Government of Cambodia (1990-93)

រដដភភបលជតភននកមមរជ

Rodthaphibeal Cheate nei Kampouchea

Provisionalgovernment-in-exile

Internationally recognized state

1982–1992
Flag

Flag of the CGDK

Coat of arms

Coat of arms

Anthem

Dap Prampi Mesa Chokchey

ដបបបបចពពរតមសមហតជគជជយ

"Great Victorious Seventeenth of April"

Location of Kampuchea, occupied by Vietnam.

Capital Not specified

de jurePhnom Penh

Languages Khmer

Government Provisionalgovernment-in-exile

President

• 1982–1987 Norodom Sihanouk

Vice President Khieu Samphan[1]

Prime Minister

• 1982 Son Sann

Historical era Cold War ·Vietnamese-Cambodian War

• Formed 22 June 1982

• Paris Peace Agreement 23 October 1991

• UNTAC mission begins 15 March 1992

Area 181,035 km2 (69,898 sq mi)

Currency Cambodian riel

Calling code +855

Preceded by Succeeded by

Democratic Kampuchea

Provisional Government of National Union and National Salvation of Cambodia

Today part of Cambodia

International recognition Edit

The signing ceremony of the coalition took place in Kuala Lumpur on 22 June 1982.[2] The President of
the coalition was Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the Prime Minister was the KPNLF leader Son Sann and the
foreign secretary was PDK leader Khieu Samphan[3].

Border camps hostile to the PRK; 1979-1984

The CGDK was allowed to retain the Cambodian/Kampuchean seat in the UN on the premise that it was
a legitimate Cambodian government in contrast to the Vietnamese-installed and controlled People's
Republic of Kampuchea regime (the Western states had previously opposed proposals by the Eastern
bloc countries to replace the Khmer Rouge-held seat of Cambodia by the representation of the
Vietnamese-installed regime). The UN General Assembly voted on the proposed ouster of Democratic
Kampuchea: 91 rejected the proposal, there were 29 countries in favour and 26 abstentions. In contrast,
in 1981, the results had been 77-37-31.[4] The CGDK was also recognised by North Korea, whose leader,
Kim Il-Sung, had offered Sihanouk sanctuary after he was deposed by Lon Nol in 1970. During a meeting
between Kim Il-sung and Sihanouk on 10 April 1986, in Pyongyang, Kim Il-Sung reassured Sihanouk that
North Korea would continue to regard him as the legitimate head of state of Cambodia.[5][6]

History Edit
Main article: Vietnamese border raids in Thailand

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, prior to the formation of the CGDK political coalition, the Sonn Sann
and Sihanouk opposition forces, then known as FUNCINPEC, drew some military and financial support
from the United States, which sought to assist these two movements as part of the Reagan Doctrine
effort to counter Soviet and Vietnamese involvement in Cambodia. In 1984 and 1985, however, the
Vietnamese army's offensives severely weakened the CGDK troops' positions, in effect eliminating the
two non-communist factions as military players, leaving the Khmer Rouge as the sole military force of
importance of the CGDK.[7] One of the Reagan Doctrine's principal architects, The Heritage Foundation's
Michael Johns, visited with Sonn Sann and Sihanouk forces in Cambodia in 1987, and returned to
Washington urging expanded US support for the KPNLF and the Sihanouk resistance forces as a third
alternative to both the Vietnamese-installed and supported Cambodian government and the Khmer
Rouge, which also was resisting the government.[8]

Although the PDK was for the most part isolated from diplomacy, their National Army of Democratic
Kampuchea were the largest and most effective armed forces of the CGDK. In 1987, Prince Sihanouk
proceeded to take 'a leave of absence' from his position as the president of the CGDK, a move that raised
the hopes of Hanoi and Moscow that he would depart the coalition.

In 1990 in the run up to the UN sponsored Paris Peace Agreement of 1991, the CGDK renamed itself the
National Government of Cambodia. It was dissolved in 1993, a year which saw the United Nations
Transitional Authority in Cambodia turn power over to the restored Kingdom of Cambodia. In July 1994
the Khmer Rouge would form an internationally unrecognised rival government known as the Provisional
Government of National Union and National Salvation of Cambodia.

References Edit

^https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP86S00596R000200800001-0.pdf

^Carney, Timothy. Kampuchea in 1982: Political and Military Escalation. p. 76

^https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP86S00596R000200800001-0.pdf

^Carney, Timothy. Kampuchea in 1982: Political and Military Escalation. p. 80. In Asian Survey, 23:1,
1983.
^Daniel Bultmann (2015) 'Inside Cambodian Insurgency. A Sociological Perspective on Civil Wars and
Conflict', Ashgate: Burlington, VT/Farnham, UK, ISBN 9781472443076.

^Odd couple: The royal and the Red By Bertil Lintner Asia Times online. Accessed on 15 August 2009.

^https://books.google.com/books?
id=UATjStQrnsAC&pg=PA51&lpg=PA51&dq=Coalition+Government+of+Democratic+Kampuchea&source
=bl&ots=lxqWS0EUHO&sig=x2UshbmhxEvAK3ap1NOtNmMsYaY&hl=en&ei=yL2GSoSrJYGX_QaqneiOAg&
sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10#v=onepage&q=&f=false

^"Cambodia at a Crossroads," by Michael Johns, The World and I magazine, February 1988.

External links Edit

Government and Politics of Cambodia - Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea

Last edited on 7 December 2017, at 01:01

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