Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea

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The Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea (CGDK) was a coalition government in exile composed of 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. The President was Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the Prime Minister was the KPNLF leader Son Sann and the foreign secretary was the Khmer Rouge's Khieu Samphan.

The CGDK was allowed to retain the Cambodian seat to 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.

Although the Khmer Rouge was for the most part isolated from diplomacy, it was the CGDK's largest military contributor and most effective army. The CGDK received aid from the West in the form of weapons, medicine and money. Thai Generals are said to have armed the Khmer Rouge independently in order to boost their capability against the Vietnamese and in response to Western demands that the Khmer Rouge received non-lethal aid.

In 1990 in the run up the UN sponsored Paris Peace Agreement of 1991, the CGDK renamed itself the National Government of Cambodia to further distance itself from Democratic Kampuchea regime.