Cambodia
6. A further reason for the crisis in the region has been Vietnam's unwarranted invasion and occupation of Cambodia in 1978. Their troops are still there. Vietnam prides itself on having fought for
its own liberation. It should respect the wish of the Cambodian
people to determine their own future free from outside interference.
But the Vietnamese Government have ignored repeated calls at the United Nations, in the 1981 International Conference on Kampuchea
and subsequent General Assembly resolutions, for the withdrawal of
all foreign forces from Cambodia and the holding of internationally supervised elections for a neutral, non-aligned and independent Cambodia. These principles were re-endorsed at last year's UN General Assembly by an overwhelming majority of 110 countries.
only have these calls been ignored but last November Vietnamese
forces launched their most ferocious offensive to date on the
Thai/Cambodian border causing well over 200,000 Cambodians to flee
into Thailand and considerable human hardship.
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