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Its components units were the Khmer Rouge led by Khieu Samphan, the Rightist Khmer People's Liberation Front (KPNLF) led by son Sann and Loyalist to Price Sihanouk known as United Front for an Independent Neutral, Peaceful and Cooperative Cambodia (FUNCINPCE).
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According to the plan, the U.N. has to arrange ceasefire between the warring factions, establish a UNTAC to run the country, make arrangements for holding a free and fair elections and motivate the four warring factions (the Phnom Penh government, KPNLF, the Khmer Rouge, FUNCINPEC) to form a supreme National Council (SNC) which would represent Cambodia in the U.N.
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