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CALL BY VIETNAMESE AMBASSADOR ON LORD GLENARTHUR: 4 AUGUST

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THE VIETNAMESE AMBASSADOR CALLED, AT HIS REQUEST, ON LORD GLENARTHUR ON 4 AUGUST, TO DISCUSS RECENT DEVELOPMENTS ON CAMBODIA. THE AMBASSADOR HANDED OVER COPIES OF THE PRK SEVEN

POINT PLAN FOR CAMBODIA AND THE LAOTIAN PROPOSAL FOR A REGIONAL

ZONE OF PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP, TABLED AT THE JIM. TRAN VAN HUNG SAID THAT THE BOGOR TALKS HAD BEEN A QUOTE VERY IMPORTANT EVENT UNQUOTE.

TWO PRINCIPAL ISSUES HAD BEEN IDENTIFIED: HOW TO RESOLVE THE CAMBODIA PROBLEM PEACEFULLY, AND HOW TO ESTABLISH A BETTER RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ALL THE COUNTRIES IN THE REGION. THERE HAD BEEN MUCH COMMON GROUND BETWEEN THE PRK ON THE ONE HAND AND THE SIHANOUKISTS AND KPNLF ON THE OTHER. THEY WERE VIRTUALLY AGREED THAT VIETNAMESE WITHDRAWAL SHOULD BE CARRIED OUT AT THE SAME TIME

AS MEASURES WERE TAKEN TO PREVENT THE KHMER ROUGE FROM STEPPING INTO THE VACUUM. THERE WAS STILL SOME DISAGREEMENT ON THE IDEA OF A NATIONAL RECONCILIATION COUNCIL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CONTROL COMMISSION. BUT AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WOULD BE NECESSARY TO GUARANTEE ANY SETTLEMENT. THIS SHOULD CONSIST OF THE FOUR CAMBODIAN FACTIONS, ASEAN, VIETNAM, LAOS, THE FIVE PERMANENT MEMBERS OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL, CUBA, INDIA, ZIMBABWE PLUS ANY OTHER COUNTRIES ABLE TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE SETTLEMENT.

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PRIOR TO THE JIM VIETNAM HAD MADE CLEAR ITS DETERMINATION TO WITHDRAW FROM CAMBODIA. A TIMETABLE WAS SET OUT IN THE PRK SEVEN POINT PLAN. SOME COUNTRIES, HOWEVER, HAD EXPRESSED CONCERN ABOUT A KHMER ROUGE RETURN. VIETNAM HAD WELCOMED THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S RECENT STATEMENT IN PARLIAMENT ON THIS POINT. AT THE JIM ALL THE CAMBODIAN FACTIONS (EXCEPT, NATURALLY, THE KHMER

ROUGE) HAD AGREED THAT THE TWO ISSUES WERE INTERLINKED: VIETNAMESE WITHDRAWAL SHOULD PROCEED QUOTE IN ACCORDANCE UNQUOTE WITH STEPS TO PREVENT THE RETURN OF THE KHMER ROUGE.

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