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COPIED TO CHANCERY BANGKOK, KUALA LUMPUR JAKARTA, MANILA, PEKING

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VIETNAM : VEC DINNER WITH NGUYÊN CƠ THẠCH

1. AT THE END OF THE DUTCH PRESIDENCY, THE DUTCH CHARGE HELD A DINNER FOR EC HEADS OF MISSION WITH VIETNAMESE FOREIGN MINISTER, NGUYEN CO THACH, ON 23 JUNE. I ATTENDED.

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THACH SEEMED MORE TIRED AND LESS EBULLIENT THAN FOR SOME I livale TIME. DISCUSSION RANGED OVER THE EXPECTED TOPICS (CAMBODIA, IMF, Eye! ODP, ECONOMIC REFORMS) WITH NOTHING OF SUBSTANCE EMERGING THOUGH

THACH PRODUCED SOME INTERSTING COMMENTS ON VARIOUS MATTERS.

DETAIL - - CAMBODIA

3. THACH REAFFIRMED THE 1990 WITHDRAWAL DATE. HE SAID VIETNAM WOULD STILL PREFER TO WITHDRAW EARLIER BUT THERE WERE NO SIGNS THAT A POLITICAL SOLUTION WAS IN PROSPECT. THE INTERLOCUTOR TALKS WITH INDONESIA HAD NOT BORN FRUIT. POL POT REMAINED TO BE LIQUIDATED. HE HOPED THE EC COULD HELP FIND A DURABLE SOLUTION BUT IF NOTHING HAPPENED BEFORE 1990 THEN VIETNAM WOULD WITHDRAW AND THE CURRENT PRK GOVERNMENT WOULD RULE ALONE. ALREADY THE PRK ARMED FORCES WERE TAKING MORE AND MORE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE DEFENCE OF CAMBODIA. THE EC SHOULD BE MORE ACTIVE AND SHOULD BE WARY OF UNCRITICAL SUPPORT FOR ASEAN AND CHINA SINCE IT WAS THE KHMER ROUGE WHO BENEFITTED. MEANWHILE CHINESE AND THAI SUPPORT ALLOWED POL POT TO CONTINUE HIS AGGRESSION AGAINST THE KHMER PEOPLE FFROM THE SANCTURY OF THAILAND. CHINA MAINTAINED HER HOSTILITY TOWARDS VIETNAM. DESPITE THE (GENUINE) TROOP WITHDRAWALS OF RECENT YEARS THE GHINESE AND THATS REFERRED ONLY TO SROOP ROT ALS OF RECENT YEARS THE

CHINESE AND THAIS REFERRED ONLY TO TROOP ROTATIONS. THESE OF COURSE EXISTED BUT THE ANNUAL WITHDRAWALS WERE REAL. BUT BY 1990 TOTAL WITHDRAWAL WOULD HAPPEN BECAUSE THE PRK WOULD BE ABLE TO DISPENSE WITH VIETNAMESE HELP. THIS WAS AN IMPORTANT PROMISE TO THE CAMBODIAN PEOPLE AS WELL AS TO THE VIETNAMESE.

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