1.   Also Wednesday, South Korean Foreign Minister Han Seung-soo took over as assembly president from former Finnish president Harri Holkeri.

2.   Among the candidates are highly influential party members, including Samane Viyaketh, current assembly president and one of three politburo members running.

3.   Assembly president Prince Norodom Ranariddh has said it could take a year or two to prepare for a trial.

4.   Assembly president Francisco Guterres said he hoped the recommendation would be endorsed by the U.N. Security Council in New York later this month.

5.   But assembly president Luis Miquilena said the body was acting within the law.

6.   In accordance with past practice, Nicole Fontaine, the assembly president, declined to cast a tie-breaking vote.

7.   The assembly president supervises the various assembly committees and steps in from time to time to broker consensus and move negotiations along.

8.   The assembly president, Prince Norodom Ranariddh, has said it could take a year or two to prepare for a trial.

9.   The U.N. General Assembly postpones its annual gathering of world leaders, assembly president says.

10.   He is also due to meet with Bosnian Serb assembly president Momcilo Krajisnik in Lukavica barracks, a Serb army base near Sarajevo bombed by NATO jets last year.