The Cambodian elections of 1955 were the first in which the Krom Pracheachon took part.

Sending observers to the Cambodian national election in July 2003.

And stability was one of the fundamentals of the international involvement in the Cambodian elections.

So far, the Government has held firm, saying its peacekeepers will stay at least through the Cambodian elections, which are to begin in less than two weeks.

Despite threats from the Khmers Rouges, the Cambodian election has passed off peacefully.

So for many foreign journalists, the Cambodian election was a bit of a let-down.

"The skeptics were wrong about the Cambodian elections," he wrote.

The European Union is sending observers to monitor the Cambodian elections.

The latter have taken a clear stance on their involvement in the Cambodian elections and have adopted a very distanced attitude to them.

For many, the Cambodian elections seemed a cruel abstraction.