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DRAEI PRESIDENCY_SIAIEMENT ON BEHALE QE_IHE_IWELVE
MEMBER SIAIES DE THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
DEBATE ON THE SITUATION_IN_KAMPUCHEA
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the Twelve Member
States of the European Community.
The Cambodia problem has become distressingly familiar to
this Assembly. For seven successive years, an overwhelming
majority of the nations represented here has called upon Vietnam
to withdraw its forces from Cambodia, so that the independence,
sovereignty and territorial integrity of that country can be
restored and so that the Cambodian people can at last enjoy
peace and freedom.
Last year a record number of countries, 114,
including the then Ten Members of the European Community, as
well as Spain and Portugal, joined in support of the resolution
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on Cambodia. The Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia has,
however, continued in violation of the UN Charter and the
fundamental principles of International Law.
The lot of the Cambodian people has not improved since the
Assembly last met to discuss this problem. They remain
subjected to illegal occupation by foreign troops and governed
by a regime which has no claim to legitimacy. Vietnam prides
itself on its struggle to win independence and the right to
determine its own destiny: it should now grant that right to the
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