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RECORD OF MEETING BETWEEN SIR JOHN COLES AND MR TANINO, DIRECTOR

GENERAL, ASIAN AFFAIRS BUREAU, JAPANESE MFA, 25 OCTOBER 1991, 1500

Present at meeting:

Mr Tanino

Mr Kohno, Director, First South East Asian

Affairs Division, MFA

Mr Sugino, Minister, Japanese Embassy

Mr Takahasi, First Secretary (Political),

Japanese Embassy

Mr Ohno, Second Secretary (Political),

Japanese Embassy

Sir John Coles,

Mr Colvin, SEAD

Mr Cox, HKD

Mr Warren, FED

HKD $21/1

Cambodia

1. Mr Tanino expressed gratitude for the close consultation with

the UK during the peace process. The US had also briefed Japan

closely. The positions of the Permanent Five had contributed much

to the agreement. There were now two priorities: every effort must

be made to preserve the peace, which would be difficult, although

Japan would make all necessary contributions to UNTAG, and he was

optimistic about the current deliberations in the Diet on the

despatch of the SDF to join the operation. Secondly, the

rehabilitation of Cambodia: Mr Nakayama had made it clear that the

Japanese Government would host an international conference on this. The PrepCom might be held by the end of March 1992, to be followed by a Ministerial meeting. Sihanouk was hopeful of coming to Tokyo.

2.

The Japanese had nominated Mr Inagawa, now in the Bangkok

Embassy, as Permanent Representative to the SNC. He would go to

Phnom Penh on 10 November. The Perm Rep would become an Embassy

only after the election, to be held in two years time.

Sihanouk had

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