An Interview with Cambodia's Foreign Minister* After visiting Sweden and a number of other European countries, the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of Cambodia, Hun Sen, paid a private visit to Paris on November 23-December 3, at the invitation of a friendship association and members of the French National Assembly who had been on a fact- finding mission to Cambodia in July 1984. In assessing France's policy on Cambodia, Hun Sen met several public figures, party representatives and members of associations. Before returning to Phnom Penh, he gave AfricAsia a long interview, the essential part of which is published below. Philippe Devillers**: The current session of the United Nations General Assembly has not brought about any change in the position on Cambodia, and your government has still not been allowed to take up its seat there. How do you evaluate this situation? Hun Sen" This question is quite complex. At the beginning of the 1970s, it was held that the Cambodian seat at the United Nations should be restored to Lon Nol because he controlled the capital. Today, it is we who control the capital and the country, but the seat is refused to us on the pretext that there are Vietnamese troops in Cambodia, without any analysis of the reasons for their presence. We are patient. People's China stayed out of the UN for 22 years, did it not? Why did it stay out for such a long time? Why did it finally join?...