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PONS OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE SOVIET UNION WOULD ALSO
ADVANCE EUROPEAN AND ASIAN SECURITY INTERESTS.
THE MINISTERS HAD AN EKSCHANGE OF VIEWS ON THEIR
POLITICO-STRATEGIC SITUATION IN THEIR RESPECTIVE REGIONS. EACH GROUP OF MINISTERS FOLLOWED THE EKSPLANATIONS OF THE
OTHER SIDE WITH APPRECIATION.
THE NEGOTIATIONS AT THE GENEVA CONFERENCE ON DISARMAM- ENT ON A CONVENTION TO BAN CHEMICAL WEAPONS WORLDWIDE MUST BE BROUGHT TO A RAPID CONCLUSION. IN VIEW OF THE ALARMING PROLIFERATION OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS, IT IS ESSENTIAL TO ELI- MINATE THEM ONCE AND FOR ALL.
6. CAMBODIA
CAMBODIA.
THE MINISTERS HAD A THOROUGH EKSCHANGE OF VIEWS ON THEY APPEALED TO ALL THOSE CONCERNED TO SETTLE, BY MEANS OF NEGOTIATIONS, THE CONFLICT WHICH HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR MORE THAN NINE YEARS NOW. THEY WELCOMED THE COURAGEOUS INITIATIVES OF PRINCE SIHANOUK. THE MINISTERS SHARED HIS VIEW THAT THE SUCCESS OF HIS INITIATIVES DEPENDS ON MORE PARTIES INVOLVED JOINING THE TALKS. THE CONFLICT IS NOT SIMPLY AN INTERNAL CAMBODIAN ONE. IN THIS CONNECTION THE MINISTERS APPEALED PARTICULARLY TO VIETNAM, WHOSE MILITARY OCCUPATION OF CAMBODIA STILL CONTINUES TO BE AN OBSTACLE TO PEACE IN SOUTH EAST ASIA.
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THE MINISTERS REITERATED THEIR RESOLVE TO WORK FOR A CAMBODIA FOR WHICH INDEPENDENCE, SOVEREIGNTY AND TERRITOR- IAL INTEGRITY ARE RESTORED AND WHICH IS FREE FROM A RETURN OF THE UNPRECEDENTED HORRORS INFLICTED UPON THE CAMBODIAN PEOPLE BY THE PAST KHMER ROUGE REGIME. A DEMOCRATIC NEUTRAL AND INDEPENDANT CAMBODIA IS UNTHINKABLE WITHOUT WITHDRAWAL
OF ALL FOREIGN TROOPS.
7. REFUGEES
THE MINISTERS REGRETTED THAT THE NUMBER OF REFUGEES HAS NOT DIMINISHED SINCE THE LAST EC-ASEAN MINISTERIAL MEETING. THE REASONS ARE THE UNSOLVED POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC PROB- LEMS OF THE INDOCHINA STATES. THE MINISTERS CALLED FOR A LASTING SOLUTION TO THE REFUGEE PROBLEM BY SERIOUS DOMESTIC REFORMS AND A PEACEFUL END TO THE CAMBODIA CONFLICT.
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AS LONG AS THE FLOW OF REFUGEES CONTINUES AND THOSE WHO HAVE HAD TO LEAVE THEIR COUNTRIES ARE DENIED THEIR IN- ALIENABLE RIGHT TO RETURN HOME SAFELY, HUMANITARIAN EFFORTS CO-ORDINATED BETWEEN THE COUNTRIES OF FIRST ASYLUM, THE RESETTLEMENT COUNTRIES AND THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS CONCERNED WILL HAVE TO CONTINUE TO EASE THE SUFFERING OF THE REFUGEES AND TO FIND THEM A NEW HOME. EC AND ASEAN WILL CON-
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