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IN THE LIGHT OF THESE DISCERNIBLE SHIFTS IN BIG POWER RELATIONSHIPS THE ASEAN COUNTRIES WILL REDOUBLE THEIR EFFORTS TO TRY TO BRING ABOUT A POLITICAL SETTLEMENT OF THE KAMPUCHE AN OBLEM. IN THIS QUEST ASEAN WILL SOLICIT THE ASSISTANCE AND UPPORT OF ITS MANY FRIENDS AND SYMPATHISERS IN THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY OF NATIONS, ESPECIALLY THOSE THAT ARE NEAR TO US BOTH IN TERMS OF PHYSICAL PROXIMITY AND SENTIMENTS.
32. HEREIN LIES THE CURRENT DIFFERENCES WITH ASE AN DIALOGUE
WHILE WE IN ASEAN HAVE NO OBJECTION TO PARTNER AUSTRALIA. ANYONE PLAYING A FACILITATING ROLE WE FEEL THAT IN ATTEMPTING TO MAKE ITSELF MORE ACCEPTABLE TO VIETNAM, AUSTRALIA APPEARED TO HAVE COMPROMISED FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS WHICH WE WHO ARE LOCATED ON THE VERY PERIPHERY OF INDOCHINA CAN ILL AFFORD TO COMPROMISE OR EVEN QUIBBLE ON. MR. HAYDEN WHILE AS A MATTER OF PRINCIPLE CONDEMNED AGGRESSION AND INVASION IN HIS U.N. SPEECH AND CITED SOVIET AGGRESSION AGAINST AFGHANISTAN AS A CASE IN POINT HE CHOSE TO BE SILENT
IT WAS ON THE ON THE VIETNAMESE INVASION OF KAMPUCHEA. SPECIFIC SUBJECT OF THE KAMPUCHEAN QUESTION WELL TOWARDS THE END OF HIS SPEECH AS IF EN PASSANT THAT HE MENTIONED THAT A SOLUTION WOULD BE THE WITHDRAWAL OF FOREIGN FORCES FROM KAMPUCHEA. IT THEN BECAME OBVIOUS TO ASEAN THAT MR. HAYDEN DID NOT SHARE WITH ASEAN THE VIEWPOINT THAT THE VIETNAMESE HAD COMMITTED AN ACT OF INVASION WHICH SHOULD BE CONDEMNED, NOT CONDONED. WHAT IS DISAPPOINTING AND A LET-DOWN TO ASEAN IS THE FACT THAT HE MERELY TALKED OF WITHDRAWAL AS A SOLUTION AND THAT HE DID NOT CONSIDER THE PRESENCE OF SOME 200,000 VIETNAMESE WHILE WE TROOPS IN KAMPUCHEA AS THE RESULT OF AN INVASION.
IN ASEAN WERE NATURALLY DISAPPOINTED WITH AUSTRALIA'S DECISION NOT TO CO-SPONSOR THE RESOLUTION ON KAMPUCHEA, WE WERE STUNNED AND UTTERLY DISMAYED BY AUSTRALIA'S COMPROMISING OF FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL IFE, WHICH ARE ENSHRINED IN THE VERY CHARTER OF THE U.N. ITSELF AND WHICH DIVERGE FUNDAMENTALLY FROM THE HITHERTO COMMON POSITION WHICH ASE AN HAD TAKEN TOGETHER WITH ITS DIALOGUE PARTNER, AUSTRALIA. THE AUSTRALIA PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE AT THE UN, DURING THE KAMPUCHEAN DEBATE, SUBSEQUENT TO MR. HAYDEN'S STATEMENT IN THE GENERAL DEBATE, STATED THAT THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT HAS CONDEMNED VIETNAM'S INVASION AND OCCUPATION OF CAMBODIA. OUR FOREIGN MINISTER EMPHASIZED THIS IS TALKS WITH ASE AN
THIS WAS SPOKEN IN THE PAST TENSE FOREIGN MINISTERS, AND NO ONE SINCE HAD REFERRED TO THE CONDEMNATION IN THE PRESENT TENSE.
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33. THE MATTER HAS UNFORTUNATELY BECOME A FULL-BLOWN DISPUTE BETWEEN ASEAN AND AUSTRALIA, THANKS TO THE PRESS PUBLICITY GIVEN TO THE SUBJECT. WHILE WE IN ASEAN SHALL ENDEAVOUR TO CONFINE THESE DIFFERENCES WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF ASEAN-AUSTRALIA RELATIONS PRINCIPALLY THE ASEAN DIALOGUE WITH AUSTRALIA THERE ARE VERY REAL RISKS OF THE MATTER OVER-SPILLING INTO THE TRADITIONALLY CLOSE AND FRUITFUL BILATERAL RELATIONS EXISTING BETWEEN EACH OF THE ASEAN COUNTRIES AND AUSTRALIA, THIS WE WOULD LIKE TO PREVENT BUT OUR TASKS MAY BE DIFFICULT TO ACHIEVE IF THE ATMOSPHERE PREVAILING AT PRESENT CONTINUES. 34. ON OUR PART ASEAN HAD SHOWN A VERY CONCILIATORY ATTITUDE WHEN WE HEARD THAT MR. HAWKE WOULD BE CLARIFYING AUSTRALIA'S
UNFORTUNATELY THIS WAS STAND DURING HIS VISIT TO BANGKOK. INTREPRETATED BY SOME THAT ASEAN HAD PUT CONDITIONS TO HIS VISIT. WHAT ASEAN HAD INTENDED TO DO WAS MERELY TO MANDATE ONE OF ITS MEMBERS - THAILAND - TO ELICIT FROM MR. HAWKE THAT AUSTRALIA WOULD NOT GIVE DEVELOPMENT AID TO VIETNAM - THOUGH ASEAN WOULD NOT OBJECT TO THE GRANTING OF HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE AND THAT AUSTRALIA REITERATES TO ONE OF THE ASEAN MEMBERS THE VIEW THAT THE VIETNAMESE INVASION OF KAMPUCHEA IS CONDEMNED BY AUSTRALIA.