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OF DEALINGN WITH SUCH A DIFFICULT COUNTRY. HE POINTED OUT THE PARALLELS WITH YUGOSLAVIA, WHERE THE EUROPEANS WERE DEALING WITH A EUROPEAN PROBLEM. WE SHOULD CONTINUE TALKING ABOUT HOW BEST TO DEAL WITH THE SLORC.
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ASKED ABOUT THE EVACUATION OF STUDENTS, VITTHYA SAID THAT THE PROBLEM WAS THAT THE STUDENTS REFUSED TO IDENTIFY THEMSELVES AS SUCH UNTIL TOO LATE. PROVIDED THE THAIS KNEW THEN AND THEY WERE NOT TROUBLE-MAKERS, THEY WOULD NOT
BE PUSHED BACK ACROSS THE BORDER.
CAMBODIA
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VITTHYA SAID THAT THE THAIS WERE PLEASED AT THE PROGRESS
MADE IN PATTAYA AND PEKING. THE ASEAN COUNTRIES HAD STRESSED THEIR STRONG SUPPORT FOR THE P5 PLAN. SOME COUNTRIES, INCLUDING THE CHINESE, WERE TALKING ABOUT A TWIN-PACK APPROACH, BUT THE THAIS BELIEVED THAT THESE TRACKS SHOULD NOT BE TOO FAR APART. HE HOPED THE P5 WOULD REMAIN ACTIVELY INVOLVED
IN FINDING A SOLUTION. BURNS SAID THAT IT WAS IMPORTANT THAT ANY ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTIONS ETC IN CAMBODIA SHOULD SATISFY UN REQUIREMENTS. VITTHYA URGED US TO KEEP UP THE PRESSURE ON HUN SEN., HE HAD TOLD RICHARD SOLOMON IN BANGKOK, TWO DAYS AGO, THAT FROM THE THAI POINT OF VIEW, ANY BILATERAL DEAL BETWEEN THE CHINESE AND THE VIETNAMESE (THE SO-CALLED ''RED SOLUTION > MIGHT HAVE DANGEROUS CONSEQUENCES. THE CONTINUED APPLICATION OF P5 PRESSURE AND P5 SOLIDARITY REMAINED THE BEST WAY FORWARD. BURNS SAID THAT WE CONTINUED TO BE ACTIVE WITHIN THE P5 AND THAT SIR J COLES WOULD BE COMING TO BANGKOK
AT THE END OF AUGUST FOR THE P5 MEETING HERE.
6. VITTHYA ASKED WHETHER AND WHEN BRITISH ACCREDITATION TO THE SNC MIGHT HAPPEN. BURNS SAID THAT IN OUR VIEW THERE WAS NO RUSH AND MINISTERS HAD NOT TAKEN ANY DECISIONS. VITTHYA SAW THE CURRENT CAMBODIAN SCENE AS UNPRECEDENTED. ASEAN HAD AGREED TO WORK BROADLY TOGETHER BUT TO LEAVE DETAILS OF ACCREDITATION TO INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES. THAILAND WOULD SET UP AN EMBASSY IN PHNOM PENH WHEN THE SNC WAS FUNCTIONING
THERE AND SIHANOUK HAD RETURNED.
VBP
7. AT VITTHYA'S REQUEST, BURNS TOOK HIM THROUGH THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS ON VBP, INCLUDING BURNS' DISCUSSIONS IN
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