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MDHIAN 5078
CONFIDENTIAL
FM PARIS
TO IMMEDIATE FCO
TELNO 1014
OF 302241Z JULY 89
INFO IMMEDIATE WASHINGTON, UKMIS NEW YORK, HONG KONG, UKMIS GENEVA INFO ROUTINE PEKING, HANOI, BANGKOK, KUALA LUMPUR, SINGAPORE,
INFO ROUTINE JAKARTA, BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, TOKYO, CANBERRA
FROM PRIVATE
SECRETARY
SECRETARY OF STATE'S MEETING WITH JIM BAKER SUMMARY
1. HALF-HOUR MEETING FOCUSSING ON CAMBODIA CONFERENCE AND VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE. BAKER REITERATED CONCERN AT PROSPECT OF FORCED REPATRIATION MAINLY ON GROUND THAT IT WOULD JEOPARDISE THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF ACTION AGREED AT GENEVA. AGREEMENT ON NEED TO EXPLORE POSSIBLE MISUNDERSTANDING OVER ROLE OF UNHCR. THE SECRETARY OF STATE MAKES CLEAR PRESENT SIUTATION IN HONG KONG INTOLERABLE. DETAIL
CAMBODIA
2. BAKER SAID THE US HAD DECIDED TO ATTEND THE CONFERENCE AT THE LAST MINUTE. AFTER BEING IN PARIS FOR 24 HOURS, HE WAS A BIT MORE OPTIMISTIC THAN HITHERTO BUT HE WORRED ABOUT THE RISK OF THE CONFERENCE FINDING A SOLUTION OF CAMBODIA'S EXTERNAL PROBLEMS (WITH THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE VIETNAMESE) BUT NOT IS INTERNAL ONES. THERE MUST BE A COMPREHENSIVE SETTLEMENT BUT SIHANOUK AND OTHERS SEEMED TO BELIEVE THAT ONCE THE VIETNAMESE WERE OUT, THE PARTIES WOULD BE REWARDED WITH ACCESS TO INTERNATIONAL LOANS ETC. WE MUST KEEP THE PRESSURE FOR SATISFACTORY INTERNAL ARRANGEMENTS. DUMAS HAD IN MIND A COMMISSION COMPOSED OF THE FOUR KHMER FACTIONS WHICH WOULD BE SUPERIMPOSED ON THE PRK GOVERNMENT. THE WAS A VERY DIFFICULT CONCEPT. SOME SORT OF INTERNATIONAL CONTROL MECHANISM WOULD ALSO BE NECESSARY AND THE UN SECRETARY GENERAL SEEMED PREPARED TO PUT RESOURCES BEHIND IT.
3. THE SECRETARY OF STATE AGREED THAT THE CONFERENCE WAS A GAMBLE BUT A NECESSARY ONE. WE TOO THOUGHT THAT A PARTIAL SOLUTION WOULD BE THE WORST OF ALL WORLDS AND WE MUST KEEP UP THE PRESSURE BOTH EXTERNALLY AND INTERNALLY. BAKER INTERJECTED THAT WE MUST ALSO KEEP THE JAPANESE INVOLVED. WE MUST ALL AVOID A SITUATION IN WHICH THE FRENCH DECLARED VICTORY AND MOVED ON. THEY WOULD SAY THAT THE KIND OF QUADRIPARTITE ARRANGEMENT THEY SEEMED TO HAVE IN MIND TOOK CARE OF THE INTERNAL SITUATION. THE FRENCH WERE PROPOSING A FORMAT OF THREE WORKING GROUPS. IT MIGHT BE WORTH CONSIDERING A FOURTH GROUP
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