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DSR 11C
17. The Soviet invasion and continued occupation of
Afghanistan has been condemned by overwhelming
majorities in this Assembly. Yet Soviet leaders
persist in ignoring both the wishes of the UN and of
the Afghan people themselves.
They have been assured
on numerous occasions that arrangements involving their
withdrawal would of course include guarantees that
Afghanistan would never pose a threat to their
security. Yet in stubborn defiance of international
opinion, and with a brutal determination to extend
still further a system of government that is unpopular
wherever it has been imposed, the Soviet Union refuses
to contemplate any negotiations that are not merely
designed to legitimise the regime it maintains in
power.
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The situation in Cambodia is not dissimilar.
There too, an unpopular regime is kept in power by the
soldiers of a next-door power. Neighbouring Thailand
has been forced to cope with a flood of refugees and
with the dangers of conflict across its borders. The
efforts of the United Nations and the neighbouring
Asean countries have so far failed to bring about any
shift in Vietnamese obduracy. As in the case of
Afghanistan, Britain will join its voice to that of the
international community in calling for a just and
peaceful solution to this dispute and in ensuring that
these continuing injustices are not forgotten.
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