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1. FOLLOWING TELEPHONE CONVERSATION OF 24 FEBRUARY, I SPOKE WITH DARUSMAN (DIRECTOR-GENERAL POLITICAL AFFAIRS, FOREIGN MINISTRY) THIS MORNING AND DREW ON SUCH TELEGRAMS AS WE HAVE RECEIVED.

2. HE ENTIRELY AGREED THAT THE FIRST PRIORITY WAS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO BRING ABOUT A CEASE-FIRE AND TO PERSUADE THE CHINESE AND VIETNAMESE TO WITHDRAW. A RESOLUTION WIR ON THE LINES OF THE ASEAN STATEMENT (NEW YORK TELNO 313) WAS NOW UNDER DISCUSSION WITH THE NON-ALIGNED AND WOULD PROBABLY BE PRESENTED JOINTLY BY ASEAN WHEN THE SECURITY COUNCIL MEETS, POSSIBLY TODAY. ALTHOUGH THIS WAS LIKELY TO BE VETOED BY AT LEAST THE SOVIET MEMBER, IT WAS HOPED TO OBTAIN A SIZEABLE MAJORITY ON IT.

3. IN THE LONGER TERM, HOWEVER, THE INDONESIANS WERE COMING TO THE CONCLUSION THAT AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WOULD NEED TO BE CALLED TO RESOLVESTHE FUTURE OF INDO-CHINA. AS THEY SAW IT THIS WOULD NOT BE A REPETITION OF THE FORMER GENEVA CONFERENCES.. INSTEAD IT MIGHT COMPRISE THE THREE INDO-CHINESE STATES, THE ASEAN COUNTRIES, CHINA, USSR, USA, JAPAN AND INDIA. DARUSMAN WAS DISPOSED TO THINK THAT THE CONVENING OF SUCH A CONFERENCE WAS NOT THE LEAST OF CHINA'S OBJECTIVES IN INTERVENING IN VIETNAM. BUT UNTIL CHINESE AND VIETNAMESE WITHDRAWALS HAD BEEN SECURED, THERE SEEMED LITTLE POINT IN PURSUING THIS IDEA.

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