Australia Foreign Relations Cambodia

With fighting escalating in Cambodia between government troops and three guerrilla factions, a flurry of diplomatic moves was reported to be under way Wednesday in an effort to settle the conflict. After four days of denials, the government in Phnom Penh admitted Wednesday that guerrillas of the Khmer Rouge faction had attacked four villages on the outskirts of Battambang, Cambodia's second-largest city, last Friday.

With fighting escalating in Cambodia between government troops and three guerrilla factions, a flurry of diplomatic moves was reported to be under way Wednesday in an effort to settle the conflict. After four days of denials, the government in Phnom Penh admitted Wednesday that guerrillas of the Khmer Rouge faction had attacked four villages on the outskirts of Battambang, Cambodia's second-largest city, last Friday.