01005719 Case File No. 002/19-09-2007/ECCC/TC E313 relinquish his office as Chief of State.265 Confronted with these events, NORODOM Sihanouk on 23 March 1970 announced in a radio broadcast from Beijing the creation of a political movement, the National United Front of Kampuchea (“FUNK”), called upon his compatriots to join the resistance and to fight against those who instigated the coup, and promised to provide them with military training and weapons.266 According to POL Pot, NORODOM Sihanouk first presented a draft of this message to the Chinese Prime Minister ZHOU Enlai who then obtained comments from POL Pot, who was in Beijing and removed any reference in the statement to socialism.267 POL Pot then drafted a message of support to NORODOM Sihanouk in the name of KHIEU Samphan, HOU Youn and HU Nim and had it delivered to NORODOM Sihanouk on 26 March 1970 without meeting him or disclosing his presence in Beijing.268 This account is corroborated by KHIEU Samphan.269 98. In May 1970, NORODOM Sihanouk formed a new government in exile, the Royal Government of National Union of Kampuchea (“GRUNK”). NORODOM Sihanouk served as the head of state of GRUNK as well as chairman of FUNK.270 Officially, KHIEU Samphan was the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of National Defence of GRUNK.271 KHIEU Samphan testified that POL Pot appointed 265 Book by P. SHORT: Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare, E3/9, 2004, p. 197, ERN (En) 00396397. 266 Message and Solemn Declaration of Samdech Norodom Sihanouk, E3/1756, 23 March 1970; T. 9 October 2012 (MEAS Voeun), pp. 50, 53-55; T. 22 November 2011 (NUON Chea) p. 90; T. 2 August 2012 (SUONG Sikoeun), pp. 69-70. 267 DK Publication: Black Paper, E3/23, September 1978, pp. 35, 38, ERN (En) 00082530, 00082532 (“When the coup d'etat broke out in Kampuchea, the delegation of the Communist Party of Kampuchea was then in Peking. As for Prince Norodom Sihanouk, he had left Paris, paid an official visit to Moscow and arrived in Peking on March 19, 1970 […] The delegation of the Communist Party of Kampuchea examined and modified the political programme of the National United Front drawn up by Prince Norodom Sihanouk […] That was why [in] the March 23, 1970 declaration denouncing and condemning the coup d’etat of national treason […] There was no question of socialism or communism in that document.”); Book by P. SHORT: Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare, E3/9, 2004, pp. 200, 488, ERN (En) 00396400, 00396704. 268 DK Publication: Black Paper, E3/23, September 1978, pp. 35, 38, ERN (En) 00082530, 00082532; Book by P. SHORT: Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare, E3/9, 2004, pp. 200, 488, ERN (En) 00396400, 00396704. 269 T. 13 December 2011 (KHIEU Samphan), pp. 88-89; Book by KHIEU S.: Considerations on the History of Cambodia From the Early Stage to the Period of Democratic Kampuchea, E3/16, pp. 39-40, ERN (En) 00498258-59. 270 T. 13 December 2011 (KHIEU Samphan), p. 90; T. 8 August 2012 (SUONG Sikoeun), pp. 8, 1011; T. 14 August 2012 (ONG Thong Hoeung), pp. 13-14; GRUNK Report: Cambodia’s Seat in the United Nations, E3/28, 1973, pp. 24-27, ERN (En) 00068116-17. 271 GRUNK report: Cambodia’s Seat in the United Nations, E3/28, 1973, p. 31, ERN (En) 00068119. Case 002/01, Judgement, 7 August 2014 - Public 52