SIHANOUK WARNS COUNTRIES NOT TO WAIT TOO LONG ON RECOGNITION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-106-9-7-7
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 4, 2009
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: April 16, 1975
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

No Objection to Declassification in Full 2009/12/04: LOC-HAK-106-9-7-7
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SIHANOUK WARNS COUNTRIES NOT TO WAIT TOO LONG ON RECOGNITION
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(BY RENE FLIPO)
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(TEXT) PEHING APRIL,' 16 (AAGAINSTIWAITING TOO LONG NTOKRECOGNIZE
CAMBODIA HAS WARNED COUNTRIES
HIS ROYAL GOVERNMENT NATIONALHEUNION OF CAMBODIA (RGNUC),
DISCLOSED
SCANDINAVIAN SOURCES
AT THE SAME TIME, THE PRINCE FORCAST THAT PHNOM PENH WOULD BE
IN KHMER ROUGE HANDS WITHIN A WEEK.
PRINCE SIHANOUK MADE HIS COMMETBJORHCWHENMRTBJORtt OFFICIALLY
TO SWEDISH AMBASSADOR TO CHINA KAJ
INFORMED HIM THAT SWEDEN HAD RECOGNIZED RGNUC.
DURING THEIR TALKS, THE PRINCE INDICATED THAT RECOGNITION WOULD
INVOLVE CERTAIN DIFFICULTIES AFTER AEREAINNTIME.E}CHEPCITED THAILAND,
MALAYSIA, SINGAPORE, AUSTRALIA AND NEW AS .
ONCE CAMBODIA WAS "LIBERATED," PRINCE SIHANOUK SAID, IT WOULD
FOLLOW A POLICY OF TOTAL INDEPENDENCE "VISTA-VISUITSYNEIGHBORS.
HE PERSONALLY PLEDGED TO W
ORTOFOHIS BITTERNESS.
HE ALSO REPORTEDLY TOLD THE SWEDISH AMBASSADOR
TOWARD THE SOVIET UNION, WHICH HAD GRANTED
REGIME OF MARSHAL LON NOL IN PHNOM PENH.
MOREITHANUZDSAID
FOLLOWING THE "LIBERATIS~oADFWITHBVISITSPRINCE
NATIONS.
ABROAD
HE PLANNED SEVERAL TRIPS
/
CAMBODIAN SOURCES HERE SAIDfETHISI Et ATGIRTHAT AN'S
IRANAWOULDR
TO CHINA WAS EXPECTED TO ANNOUNCE
RECOGNIZE THE RGNUC.
1i: APR 18257 PC/CAJ
No Objection to Declassification in Full 2009/12/04: LOC-HAK-106-9-7-7
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