Hopes were high that Cambodia had been set on a transformative path by the success of the United Nations peace plan, the huge peacekeeping operation that followed, and the remarkably peaceful election of 1993 (in all of which Australia played a leading role during my time as Foreign Minister).
人们热切地希望柬埔寨已经在联合国和平计划的成功及随后的维和行动以及令人瞩目的1993年和平选举（当时由我担任外交部长的澳大利亚在所有这些事情中都起到了领导作用）走上了转型之路。