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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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