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likely to achieve results than punitive sanctions. Such sanctions
would do nothing to hasten the end of apartheid. Rather, they would
hurt the very victims of apartheid whom we seek to help. Our
position is I believe increasingly understood in Africa. and our
support for the Front Line States, including military training for
Zimbabwe and Mozambique, is greatly appreciated.
My Lords, Angola is not the only country from which the Soviet Union
and its allies are withdrawing their troops. I have mentioned Afghanistan. I believe that firm Western and international pressure
and the heroism of the Afghan resistance were decisive in
stimulating Soviet "new thinking" on this issue.
We should not at this stage be too concerned by recent Soviet
indications that they will delay the start of the next phase of
their withdrawal. The important thing is that they realise that
they have no business being in Afghanistan and that they must be
gone completely by 15 February 1989 at the very latest. Only then
will the Afghan people at last have the chance to determine their
own future.
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The Cambodian people also await the chance to resume control of
their own affairs. Vietnam has indicated that it is ready to end
its illegal occupation of Cambodia, which we were among the first
to condemn. Let Vietnam now put the flesh of action on the bones
of resolve. It is time for Cambodia's long agony to end. Her
people need peace free from foreign domination and free from the
fear that Pol Pot and his murderous henchmen might return.
Prince Sihanouk repeated his proposals for a settlement to my rt hon
Friend the Prime Minister in London recently. We support his stand.
Although ours is not a central part, we shall continue to do
whatever we realistically can to put an end to the suffering of
Cambodia's people.
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Vietnam cannot afford the cost of its Cambodian adventure.
economy is in ruins, only one example of the many failures of the
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