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OBJET: DRAFT SPEECH BY THE PRESIDENCY AT THE 43RD SESSION OF THE

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE UNITED NATIONS

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IN ASIA, SOLUTIONS TO THE MOST SERIOUS CRISES SEEM TO BE EMERGING. THE TWELVE WELCOMED THE SIGNING OF THE GENEVA AGREEMENTS

ON AFGHANISTAN AND THEY NOW EXPECT THAT ALL PARTIES CONCERNED

SHALL SPARE NO EFFORT IN PURSUING THE PEACE PROCESS. AN OVERALL

POLITICAL SETTLEMENT OF THE AFGHAN PROBLEM IMPLIES THE

WITHDRAWAL OF ALL SOVIET TROOPS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AGREED TIMETABLE, THE UNIMPEDED RETURN OF REFUGEES AND, IN PROCESS OF SELF-DETERMINATION, THE SETTING UP OF A FULLY REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT. IN THIS CONNECTION, THEY CONSIDER PARTICIPATION BY THE RESISTANCE TO BE INDISPENSABLE.

ALSO, FROM THIS FORUM, I WISH TO REITERATE THE WILL

OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY AND ITS MEMBER STATES TO

CONTRIBUTE TO THE RESETTLEMENT OF REFUGEES AND TO THE RECONSTRUCTION

OF THE COUNTRY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROGRAMMES LAID DOWN IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE UNITED NATIONS.

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IN ADDITION, A RETURN TO PEACE AND STABILITY IN SOUTH-EAST

ASIA IS STILL CONTINGENT UPON ON A SOLUTION BEING FOUND TO THE

PROBLEM OF CAMBODIA. THIS CONFLICT IS THE RESULT OF A FOREIGN

MILITARY OCCUPATION IN VIOLATION OF THE

FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE U.N. AND INTERNATIONAL LAW AND MUST BE BROUGHT TO AN END. IN THIS CONNECTION, THE INFORMAL DJAKARTA MEETING IN JULY WAS AN ENCOURAGING SIGNAL TOWARDS A POLITICAL SOLUTION OF THE CONFLICT RESULTING IN AN INDEPENDENT, DEMOCRATIC, NEUTRAL AND NON-ALIGNED CAMBODIA. THERE SHOULD BE NO RETURN TO THE

TERRIBLE ABUSES OF THE PAST. THE TWELVE RENEW THEIR APPEAL TO

VIETNAM TO WITHDRAW ALL ITS TROOPS FROM CAMBODIA. WE CALL UPON ALL

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