AFP: SIHANOUK OUTLINES CAMBODIAN POLICY AFTER LON NOL'S FALL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-106-7-2-4
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 4, 2009
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 20, 1975
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

No Objection to Declassification in Full 2009/12/04: LOC-HAK-106-7-2-4
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(TEXT) PAR IS, MARCH 20 (AFP)--PR INCE NORODOM SIHANOUK OF
CAMBOD 1A, IN AN INTERVIEW PUBLISHED HERE TODAY, PRAISED UNITED
NATIONS SECRETARY-GENERAL KURT WALDHEIM FOR REFUSING TO GO TO
PHNOM PENH TO LAUNCH "UNREAL IZABLE NEGOT IAT IONS" CALLED FOR THE
U. N. GENERAL A SSEMBL Y.
THE PRINCE PREDICTED THE GOVERNMENT OF CAMBODIAN PRESIDENT
LION NOL WOULD FALL WITHIN A FEW WEEKS IF UNITED STATES AID IS CUT
OFF OR WITHIN A FEW MONTHS IF THE AID CONTINUES.
IN THE INTERVIEW WITH THE WEEKLY AFRIQUE-ASIE, PRINCE
SIHANOUK. WHO I S CHAIRMAN OF THE CAMBODIA NATIONAL UNITED FRONT
(NUFC) LISTED THE FOLLOWING POINTS OF CAMBODIAN FOREIGN POLICY
nor, AFTER THE PROJECTED FALL OF MARSHAL LON NOL:
U --MAXIMUM DEVELOPMENT OF "FRIENDSHIP SOLIDARITY AND COOPERATION"
WITH ABOUT 60 STATES WHICH "PROVED TO BE GENUINE FIRENDS"
BETWEEN 1970 AND 1975--MOSTLY ARAB AND AFR I CAN COUNTRIES.
--BROADENING THE "CIRCLE" OF FOREIGN FRIENDS, REGARDLESS
OF IDEOLOGY, TO INCLUDE ALL THOSE WHO RESPECT THE NATIONAL
INDEPENDENCE, TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY AND IDEOLOGICAL CHOICE OF
TOMORROW'S CAMBOD IA.
--AID FROM BIG POWERS WILL ONLY BE ACCEPTED IF IT IS
"ABSOLUTELY UNCONDITIONAL AND RESPECTFUL OF OUR DIGNITY, AS IS
0 THE AID FROM THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA."
U
--NO RELATIONS WITH "ZIONIST ISRAEL" NOR WITH THE GOVERNMENTS
IN TAIPEI, SEOUL AND SAIGON.
--THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION
,
i.. "WHICH FOR US IS THE STATE OF PALESTINE," WILL HAVE THE RANK
AND PREROGAT IVES OF AN AMBASSADOR.
P t1 --NO OFFICIAL RELATIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES I F IT CONTINUES
0 TO GRANT AID AND PROTECT ION TO THE "PHNOM PENH REGIME."
0 --NO OFFICIAL RELATIONS WITH THAILAND, UNLESS IT ELIMINATES
FOREIGN MILITARY BASES AND RESPECTS THE TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY
OF CAMBODIA, ESPECIALLY REGARDING THE PRAH VIHAR TEMPLE WHICH THE
INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE HAS "CONFIRMED AS BELONGING TO
~-l CAMBOD IA."
21 MAR 01187 JT C/ G S
No Objection to Declassification in Full 2009/12/04: LOC-HAK-106-7-2-4