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5. DISARMAMENT, ARMS CONTROL AND RELATED QUESTIONS. THE MINISTERS WELCOMED THE INF TREATY AS A MILESTONE, BEING THE FIRST AGREEMENT BY WHICH THE UNITED STATES AND
THE SOVIET UNION HAVE DECIDED TO REDUCE EFFECTIVELY THEIR
NUCLEAR ARSENALS THEY HOPE THAT THIS AGREEMENT WILL BE FOLLOWED BY OTHERS AND WILL THUS BE BENEFICIAL TO OTHER
FIELDS OF ARMS CONTROL.
A START AGREEMENT REDUCING THE STRATEGIC NUCLEAR WEA- PONS OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE SOVIET UNION WOULD ALSO ADVANCE EUROPEAN AND ASIAN SECURITY INTERESTS.
THE MINISTERS HAD AN EKSCHANGE OF VIEWS ON THEIR POLITICO-STRATEGIC SITUATION IN THEIR RESPECTIVE REGIONS, IN WHICH THEY HAVE A SHARED INTEREST. EACH GROUP OF MI-
NISTERS FOLLOWED THE EKSPLANATIONS OF THE OTHER SIDE WITH
APPRECIATION.
THE MINISTERS AGREED THAT THE NEGOTIATIONS AT THE GENEVA
CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT ON A CONVENTION TO BAN CHEMICAL
WEAPONS WORLDWIDE MUST BE BROUGHT TO A RAPID CONCLUSION.
THEY REAFFIRMED THEIR RESOLVE TO SPARE NO EFFORTS TOWARDS
REACHING SUCH A GLOBAL AND VERIFIABLE CONCLUSION. IN VIEW
OF THE ALARMING PROLIFERATION OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS, IT IS ESSENTIAL TO ELIMINATE THEM ONCE AND FOR ALL.
6.
CAMBODIA
THE MINISTERS HAD A THOROUGH EKSCHANGE OF VIEWS ON CAM-
BUDIA. THEY APPEALED TO ALL THOSE CONCERNED TO SETTLE, BY MEANS OF NEGOTIATIONS, THE CONFLICT WHICH HAS BEEN GOING ON
FOR MORE THAN NINE YEARS NOW. THEY WELCOMED THE COURAGEOUS
INITIATIVES OF PRINCE SIHANOUK. THE MINISTERS SHARED HIS
VIEW THAT THE SUCCESS OF HIS INITIATIVES DEPENDS ON MORE
PARTIES INVOLVED JOINING THE TALKS. THE CONFLICT IS NOT
SIMPLY AN INTERNAL CAMBODIAN ONE. IN THIS CONNECTION THE MINISTERS APPEALED PARTICULARLY TO VIETNAM, WHOSE MILITARY OCCUPATION OF CAMBODIA STILL CONTINUES TO BE AN OBSTACLE
TO PEACE IN SOUTH EAST ASIA.
THE MINISTERS REITERATED THEIR RESOLVE TO WORK IN AC-
CORDANCE WITH THE RELEVANT RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE UNITED
NATIONS FOR A CAMBODIA FOR WHICH INDEPENDENCE, SOVEREIGNTY AND TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY ARE RESTORED AND WHICH IS FREE
FROM A RETURN OF THE UNPRECEDENTED HORRORS INFLICTED UPON
THE CAMBODIAN PEOPLE BY THE PAST KHMER ROUGE REGIME. A DEMO- CRATIC, NEUTRAL AND
NEUTRAL AND INDEPENDANT CAMBODIA IS UNTHINKABLE WITHOUT WITHDRAWAL OF ALL FOREIGN TROOPS LUNDER INTERNATIONAL CONTROL.]
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