TRENDS IN COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA

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29 April 1970
(VOL. XXI, NO. 17)
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CONTENTS
Topics and Events Given Major Attention
INDOCHINA
Issue c;f New Geneva Cc:`>ference on Indochina . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Moscow Decries Cambodian "Massacres," Rebuts PRC Charges . . . . . 3
Summit Conference of the Indochinese Peoples . . . . . . . . . . 4
Peking, Other Bloc Treatment of Indochinese Leaders' Meeting . . . 8
NCNA, VNA Omit Sihanouk Remark Anticipating Joint Statement . . . . 9
Hanoi Rejects Indonesian Suggestion for Asian Conference . . . . . 10
USSR, PRC Score Indonesian Plan for Asian Meeting 10
Hanoi, Peking, Moscow Denounce Foreign Aid to Cambodia . . . . . . 11
Hanoi and the Front on President Nixon's 20 April Speech . . . . . 12
Moscow on President's Troop-Withdrawal Announcement . . . . . . . . 15
War in the South: Dak Seang Cease-Fire for Prisoner Release . . . 16
DRV Foreign Ministry Spokesman Charges U.S. Air Attack . . . . . . 17
Front, Hanoi Note Second Anniversary of Vietnam Alliance . . . . . 18
VWP Politburo Resolution Sets Criteria for Party Members . . . . . 19
Peking Celebrates Flight as Victory for Mao's Thought . . . . . . . 22
Bucharest, Belgrade Send Messages; Other Reactions Standard . . . . 24
Propaganda Accents Ideological Hostility, Ignores Talks . . . . . 26
Moscow Cites Lenin Day Gath^.ring as Answer to PRC Attacks . . . . . 27
STRATEGIC ARMS LIMITATION
Moscow Continues Low-Volume Attacks on Opponents of Agreement . . 29
USSR AND EAST EUROPE
Kadar Defends Hungarian Road in Moscow Lenin Day Speech . . . . . . 30
Further Evidence of Strains in Romanian-Soviet Relations . . . . . 32
CUBA
Castro Affirms Pro-Soviet Stat.ce in Lenin Anniversary Speech . . . 35
PRC INTERNAL AFFAIRS
Shantung Activists Meet, RC Chairmen Is Absent . . . . . . . . . . 40
Fewer PLA Unit Numbers Monitored from Broadcasts . . . . . . . . . 40
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TOPICS AND EVENTS GIVEN MAJOR ATTENTION 20 - 26 APRIL 1970
Moscow (3014 items)
Peking (1666 items)
Lenin Centenary
(55%)
69%
Lenin Centenary
(6%)
29%
[Brezhnev Speech,
22%]
[Joint Editorial
(--)
21%]
21 April
First PRC Satellite
(--)
18%
Indochina
(3%)
8%
Indochina
(42%)
17%
[Cambodia
(0.1%)
5%]
[Cambodia
(40%)
15%]
[Vietnam
(2%)
3%]
[Vietnam
(2%)
1%]
[Laos
(0.1%)
-]
[Laos
(0.2%)
--]
Middle East
(5%)
3%
Domestic Issues
(20%)
17%
These statistics are based on the volcecast commentuy output of the Moscow and
Peking domestic and international radio services. The term "commentary" is used
to denote the lengthy item-radio talk, speech, press article or editorial, govern-
ment or party statement, or diplomatic note. Items of extensive reportage are
counted as commentaries.
Topics and events given major attention in terms of volume are not always
discussed in the body of the Trends. Some may have been covered in prior issues;
In other cases the propaganda content may be routine or of minor significance.
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INDOCHINA
Soviet UN representative Yakov Malik's 16 and 18 April remarks on a
new Gr,neva conference are attacked by a Peking NCNA correspondent on
24 April as a "vain attempt by the Soviet revisionist renegade clique
to act in collusion with U.S. imperialism" to stabilize the "rightist"
regime in Cambodia and oppose the anti-U.S. struggle of the
l.idochinese peoples. Although LIBERATION PRESS AGENCY on the 21st
reported PRG Foreign Minister Nguyen Thi Binh's comment at a Paris
press conference that Mr. Malik apparently "held that a Geneva
conference is not practical," Soviet propaganda has maintained,
total silence on Malik's various remarks. Apr.~rt from the NCNA
commentary and a Tirana broadcast, no communist propaganda source
has acknowledged President Nixon's remark in ;Zis 20 April TV
speech that the United States had noted Malik's statements on a
possible new Geneva conference "with interest."
Moscow's avoidance of the Geneva-conference issue is pointed up by
a 27 April Radio Peace and Progress broadcast in Mandarin which
scores--without identifying--NCNA's latest "fabrications" about
Soviet-U.S. collusion on Cambodia. Moscow's caution regarding
Cambodian developments is further evident in a TASS statement of
the 24th on "massacres" of Vietnamese residents--the most authoritative
Soviet propaganda to date--which says that U.S. escalation in
Indochina "cannot but cause concern among those interested in the
earliest resolution of the dangerous conflict and a peaceful settle-
ment of the problems of Indochina."
Vietnamese communist propaganda highlights the summit conference of
Indochinese peoples that was reportedly convened on Sihanouk's
initiative on 24-25 April in "a locality on the Lao-Vietnam-China
border area." NHAN DAN observes editorailly on the 28th that "the
finest result of the conference, as the joint declaration pointed
out," is the reassertion of the three peoples' "determination to
fight until complete victory and of their solidarity and mutual
support . . . . " The declaration avoids direct mention of a new
Geneva conference but censures any attempt by "the United States,
its agents, and other Asian reactionaries" to use any organization
or international conference to legitimize the Lon Nol-Sirik Matak
regime. A NHAN DAN commentary on the 25th says the Vietnamese
"categorically" oppose any conference on Cambodia which, like the one
proposed by Indonesian Foreign Minister Adam Malik, would defend the
Lon Nol "clique" rather than Cambodia. Moscow and Peking h%ve both
scored Adam Malik's proposal in routine propaganda.
ISSUE OF NEW GENEVA CONFERENCE ON IN.OCHINA
PEKING ON USSR- The 24 April NCNA commentary denouncing Soviet
U.S. "COLLUSION" UN delegate Yakov Malik's 16 and 18 April
remarks on a new Geneva conference is Peking's
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statement expressing concern about the spread of the Vietnam war to
Laos and Cambodia and proposing general negotiations leading to a
"zone of neutrality and peace." The NCNA commentary now lists amcng
developments in the U.S? "peace talks fraud" the urging of the
Cambodian regime "'U-c- accept the French proposal on the convening
of a new Geneva conference to discuss the Indochinese situation."
Peking radio's rebroadcasting of the NCNA commentary, which levels a
bitter attack at "S.viet-U.S. collusion" to oppose the Cambodian
people's struggle, has been surprisingly limited. The commentary was
broadcast three times in the domestic service and twice in French
to Southeast Asia on the 214th and 25th, as well as belatedly in
Vietnamese on the 27th, but no version of it has been heard in
Peking's Russian, Cambodian, or Lao service. The limited dissemination
of the commentary may possibly be explained in part by the
concentration on the Chinese satellite launching in Peking's
broadcasts on the 25th and 26th.
The timing of the NCNA commentary is intriguing, coming as it does
four days after President Nixon's favorable reference to Malik's
16 April press conference remarks and PRG Foreign Minister Nguyen
Thi Binh's Paris press conference at which she chose to comment
only on Malik's second statement--to the effect that a new Geneva
conference is not practical at this time. Peking may have wished
to defer comment on Malik's remarks until after: the Vietnamese
communists hadbcknowledged them. But Mme. Binh mentioned only the
negative side of Malik's remarks; and NCNA reports his statements
of both 16 and 18 April. Observing that Malik's statement on the
16th--that the Soviet Union was paying the closest attention to the
reconvening of a Geneva conference--immediately aroused considerable
interest in "imperialist" circles, the NCNA commentary cites President
Nixon's 20 April expression of approval as well as earlier statements
by Secretary Rogers and UN Secretary General U Thant. The commentary
adds that this put Malik in a tight spot, and he "feared that his
undisguised and stupid commitment would enable the people of the
three Indochinese countries to see through the Soviet revisionists
as renegades." NCNA adds that Malik consequently changed his tune
after only two days and said it was "unrealistic" to consider
convening a conference at present. But "words once spoken cannot be
retracted," NCNA concludes.
PRC-DRV RELATIONS The NCNA commentary was released while North
Vietnamese Politburo member Le Duc Tho was
en route from Moscow to Hanoi. There is no propaganda evidence of
recent Sino-Vietnamese consultations. As usual, the media carry no
reports of the presumed stopovers in Peking by First Secretary
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Le Duan enroute to Moscow for the Lenin centenary celebrations or
by Le Duc Tho on his way back to Hanoi after attending the celebrations.
Moscow reported that Le Duc Tho had left the Soviet capital, on the
24th, and VNA subsequently reported his arrival in Hanoi on the 26th.
TASS reported on the 24th that the Le Duan delegation was received
by Brezhnev and that the two held "friendly conversations" in which
fraternal DRV-USSR cooperation was noted. TASS added that "topical
questions" of developing party and government relations were
discussed. VNA's 25 April report of the meeting said it took place
in a cordial atmosphere of "militant solidarity and fraternal
friendship."
MOSCOW DECRIES CAMBODIAN "MASSACRES," REBUTS PRC CHARGES
In a Mandarin-language "Radio Peace and Progress" broadcast on the
27th Moscow takes exception to NCNA's "once again engaging in
anti-Soviet fabrications by trying to show that the Soviet Union
and the United States are colluding to bolster the tottering
reactionary regime of Cambodia's rightist clique." But the broad-
cast does not acknowledge that NCNA's charge concerned Malik's
remarks about a new Geneva conference; it says merely that "the
concoctions made by NCNA concerning Soviet policy toward Southeast
Asia are not exceptional." The broadcast claims that Chinese
propagandists are not only trying to distort Soviet policy but are
hoping to "distract the Chinese people's attention from a major
step advanced by the Soviet Union--that is, the TASS statement
issued on the Cambodian question."
Radio Peace and Progress sets out to demonstrate that the TASS
statement--which had been issued on the 24th--expressed the "Soviet
people's indignation over the Cambod.'an military authorities'
persecution of Vietnamese residents and firmly denounced U.S.
imperialism's policy toward this area."* The broadcast, however,
fails to mention that the TASS statement said U.S. escalation
throughout Indochina "causes concern among those who are interested
* The most recent previous TASS statement on Indochina, on
28 February, criticized the "considerable escalation" of U.S. armed
interference in Laos. A 10 December 1967 TABS statement condemned
alleged U.S. plans to expand the wax to Laos and Cambodia, but
the last TASS statement dealing exclusively with Cambodia was on
19 October 1965 in connection with the USSR's refusal to receive a
visit from Sihanouk at that time.
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In the earliest resolution of the dangerous conflict and a peaceful
settlement of the problems of Indochina." It does record TASS'
concluding warning that attempts to undermine the neutrality of
Cambodia and to widen aggression in Indochina "may have most
serious consequences for the cause of peace and security in Southeast
Asi.a."
The massacres of Vietnamese residents in Cambodia are also denounced
in a. 26 A)r.il PRAVDA article which, again without directly naming
Lon Nol, scores Cambodian pursuit of a "policy of genocide." The
"Cambodian authorities," says PRAVDA, are acting as the executors of
a "broad plan aimed. at extending the war in Southeast Asia, a plan
whose authors must be found in Washington." While denouncing
Cambodian actions against Vietnamese residents, available Moscow
comment has not men,;ioned the various Vietnamese communist denials
of the Vietnamese military presence in Cambodia; Moscow has
reported such denials in the past.
SUMMIT CONFERENCE OF THE INDOCHINESE PEOPLES
DRV media revealed on. the 27th that a "summit conference of the
Indochinese peoples" was held on 24-25 April in a "locality on the
Lao-Vietnam-China border area." According to the joint declaration
broadcast on that day, the conference was convened on the initiative
of Prince Sihanouk, who in addition to being cited as Cambodian head
of state is for the first time referred to as the "President of the
National United Front of Kampuchea (FUNK)." The DRV delegation was
led by Premier Pham Van Dong, and the Lao group was headed. by NLHX
Chairman Prince Souphanouvong. The PRG-NFLSV delegation was led by
NFLSV Chairman Nguyen Huu Tho. This is Tho's first reported
appearance since 22 November 1969, when he reportedly left Moscow
after his visit there for the October Revolution anniversary.
JOINT DECLARATION The declaration says that the conference reached
a "unanimity of views" on the present situation
in Indochina and on the struggle of the three against the United
States and its "agents." It also reviews--in standard terminology--
the "brilliant victories" of the three Indochinese peoples, stating
that the 1965 Indochinese people's conference together with the
* This appears to be Moscow's most forthcoming statement on
an Indochina settlement since the coup in Cambodia, although Moscow
had gone on record before as being in favor of a speedy settlement.
Last October, for example, at a banquet for the visiting Pham Van
Dong, Kosygin said the USSR comes out for peace in Vietnam "without
delay and procrastination."
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current meeting "greatly contribute to the strengthening and
consolidation" of fraternal friendship and militant solidarity.
T.ie declaration adds that it is "crystal clear" that the United
States is seeking every means to prolong and widen the war in
Indochina and calls the "smashing" of the U.S. "scheme". an "urgent
demand at the present time." It contains the usual "earnest" call
on the Indochinese peoples to "strengthen their solidarity and wage
a heroic and tenacious fight" against the United States and the
appropriate "lackeys."
The conference declaration enumerates the "combat objectives" of the
Cambodian, Lao, and South Vietnamese parties--which the DRV
"unreservedly" supports--as the familiar standard ones: independence,
peace, neutrality, prohibition of the presence of all "foreign"
troops or military bases on their soil, nonparticipation in any
military alliance, and prohibition of the use of their territories
by any foreign country for purposes of aggression against other
countries.
According to the declaration, the conference showed "special concern"
for the present situation in Cambodia and expressed "resolute support"
for the struggle of the Khmer people, who are responding to Sihanouk's
appeal and "with arms in hands" are struggling to overthrow the
Lon Nol-Sirik Matak "clique." The conference also "strongly"
condemned all attempts by "the United States, its agents, and other
Asian reactionaries at misusing the name of the United Nations or
any organization or any international or Asian conference in order
to legitimize the illegal Lon Nol-Sirik Matak reactionaries and to
inter;:ere in Cambodia."
The declaration contains a passage which could conceivably be
regarded as justification for Vietnamese communist troop presence
in Cambodia: "Proceeding from the principle that the liberation and
the defense of each country are the business of its people, the
various parties pledge to do all they can to give one another
reciprocal support according to the desire of the party concerned and
on the basis of mutual respect."
In pledging to abide by the five principles of peaceful. coexistence
and the 195+ and 1962 Geneva Agreements, the declaration says the
parties affirmed that, "all problems" between the three countries
"can be solved through negotiations." It adds that "the parties
agree that meetings will take place when necessary between summit-
level leaders or between competent representatives for exchanges
of views on problems of common in'erest."
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CONFERENCE A 27 April report attributed to a VNA "special
SPEECHES correspondent," briefly recounting the main speeches
of the four delegation heads, notes that the
24 April session included opening remarks by Prince Sihanouk
who pointed to the changes in Indochina since the 1965 Indochinese
conference in Phnom Penh. Next, Prince Souphanouvong decried the
"perfidious maneuvers" and "unavoidable failure" of the United
States, recalled the NLHX five-point stand, and expressed his
support for Sihanouk's five points, the NFLSV-PRG 10-points, and the
DRV's four points. Pharr Van Dong reportedly recalled and
elaborated on a passage from Ho's testament expressing the
Vietnamese people's resolve to fight on until victory. Nguyen
Huu Tho asserted that the "revolutionary storms" in Indochina
will sweep away the United States.
When the conference resumed on the 25th, according to the VNA
correspondent, Cambodian delegation member Huot Sambath, also a
member of the conference's secretariat, presented the draft
joint declaration. The four delegation heads consulted one
another and quickly reached "unity of views," and the declaration
was adopted and signed "amid thunderous applause." Phan Van Dong
addressed the gathering again and voiced the Vietnamese people's
"deep gratitude" to the Lao and Cambodian peoples and "leaders"
for having "generously supported and assisted oui resistance"
against the United States. He added that the DRV and Vietnamese
people are determined to strengthen the "great militant solidarity"
of the Indochinese peoples, "united in the national united front
of each country."
In the concluding speech to the gathering Sihanouk reportedly
exposed the "deceitful and perfidious character" of President
Nixon and mentioned his 20 April address in this context, Sihanouk
condemned schemes of unnamed "'big powers"' in the West, as well
as Asian "reactionaries" and "stooges" such as Indonesian Foreign
Minister Adam Malik who sought to "interfere" in Cambodia through
the UN and other international organizations and conferences.
DRV, Front, and Pathet Lao media on the 28th carry the full text
of the opening speeches of their respective delegation heads.
Sihanouk's remarks are also carried in full by DRV media that day.
DRV, FRONT Considerable Vietnamese communist attention to the
COMMENT summit meeting includes Hanoi radio's report on the
27th of a news conference held that day by Hoang
Quoc Viet, the deputy head of the DRV delegation to the meeting.
VNA on the 27th reports the convening on the same day of the
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presidium of the DRV's Fatherland Front, which issued a communique
welcoming the results of the summit meeting. VNA reports on the 28th
that a "grand meeting" was held that day in Hanoi under the sponsorship
of the Fatherland Front, Truong Chinh and Pham Van Dong were reported
present and Hoang Quoc Viet delivered the report on the conference.
On the 28th VNA reports that "all" Hanoi dailies that day "warmly"
hail the meeting. NHAN DAN's editorial says, among other things, that
the summit meeting's joint declaration constituted "a victory of
paramount importance" for the Vietnamese, Cambodian and Lao peoples.
It adds that the summit conference met the "urgent requirement of the
three peoples' fight against U.S. aggression . o , and opened up fine
prospects for a powerful development of that fight."
Liberation Front media repeat the full text of the conference's joint
declaration, and an editorial broadcast by the Front radio on the
28th says the meeting "possessed the fullest competence and prestige
to assess the situation, to set forth the Indochinese peoples' tasks,
and to draw up a special platform governing their solidarity, their
determination to fight against the common enemies o , o and their
longterm cooperation, because the conference represented the voice
of the most genuine delegates of the three peoples who are courag%3ously
fighting and winning."
BACKGROWD ON 1965 The 1965 Indochinese people's conference, held
INDOCHINA CONFERENCE in Phnom Penh in early March and lasting nine
days, was not a summit meeting but a gathering
of various official and self-styled "front" organizations in Indochina
at that time. The highest ranking DRV officials present were Fatherland
Front members Hoang Quoc Viet and Hoang Minh Giam, both of whom were
members of the DRV delegation at the April 1970 summit meeting. The
NFLSV delegation was led by its Secretary General Huynh Tan Phat, now
PRG President.
In addition to denouncing the United States and expressing Indochinese
solidarity, the Phnom Penh conference record contains a general
resolution which, as summarized by NCNA on 10 March 1965, called for
new international conferences on both Cambodia and Laos. According
to NCNA, the resolution held "that a new international conference on
Cambodia to provide it with legitimate guarantees concerning its
neutrality and territorial integrity and a new international
conference on Laos to insure the strict implementation of the 1962
Geneva agreements will help to create a favorable atmosphere and to
facilitate a restoration of peace in Indochina."
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PEKING, OTHER BLOC TREATMENT OF INDOCHINESE LEADERSI MEETING
PEKING Peking hails the joint declaration of the Indochinese leaders
with a PRC Government statement* released on 28 April, The
PRC statement praises the unity of the three peoples in the face of the
"common enemy," U.S, imperialism, and scores alleged U,S. "aggression
and "counterrevolutionary tactics," The Americans, it says, are trying
to pull together the puppets of South Vietnam, Lack. Cambodia, and
Thailand in an attempt to turn "the three Indochinese countries and the
whole Indochinese peninsula" into "an important military base for its
aggression against China and other Asian countries."
The notion that the United States wants to esttiblish a base in Indochina
for attacking China has not been pressed In authoritative PRC statements
since 1966, ali,hough dangers to China posed by the Vietnam war were
cited in some comment during 1967" Some recent Peking comment in
connection with Laos has noted that military actions are taking place
near the Chinese frontier. The 26 March PRC Foreign Ministry statement
observed only that Laos is "Cnina's close neighbor," but an NCNA
commentary on 13 March noted that American airmen fly support missions
in "liberated areas" of Laos and in "areas close to the borders of
China and the DRV,"
The PRC Government statement charges that the United States has "torn to
shreds" the 1954 and 1962 Geneva agreements and, "under the signboard
of 'peace talks,,'" is pressing Vietnamization in Vietnam and intensified
aggression in Laos and Cambodia. The statement warns that the Chinese
Government and people are "closely watching with concern the development
of the present situation" in Cambodir, and "firmly support the Cambodian
people in taking up arms" in response to Sihanouk's call. It opposes
U.S. schemes to undermine the Cambodian people's struggle by "utilizing
the UN or any other international organization or conference." It does
n.:)t, however, echo the earlier warning on Laos that the Chinese people
"will not stand idly bye"
This the first Chinese Government, statement on Cambodia since 2 May
1965, when the PRC endorsed Cambodian conditions laid down for the
convening of an international conference on the Cam'odian situations
Peking has occasionally isr.; red foreign ministry statements on Cambodia,
most recently on 26 Novembe.: 1969 denouncing U.S. bombing of Dak Dam,
The most recent PRC foreign Ministry statement on Indochina was on
26 March when Peking warned that it would "not stand idly by" while
the United States committed aggression in Laos.
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OTHER MEDIA Of the other communist media, Albania and the DPRK no
far 1-,ave greeted the conference with government
statements, and Pyongyang also publicizes a 23 April telegram from
Kim Il-song to the summit conference. TASS promptly summarized the
joint declaration on the 27th, and a TASS commentary by Kharkov on the
'8th praises the meeting as "another milestone along the road of
further rallying the national liberation forces" of Indochina. The
TASS report of the joint declaration gives the titles of the leaders
of each delegation except for Sihanouk, thus omitting his title of
Head of State as well c.3 the new title President of the National
United Front of Kampuchea. As a rule, Moscow comment generally has
avoided referring to Sihanouk by any title. On the other hand,
Moscow has generally referred to the Lon No l regime as the Cambodian
or Phnom Penh "authorities," or "ruling circles," usually avoiding
such epithets as "puppet" or "clique," In rare cases, including an
8 April LIFE ABROAD article and a 25 April domestic service commentary,
Moscow has actuall; mentioned a "Lon Nol government."
NCNA. VNA OMIT SIHANOUK REMARK ANTICIP,sTING JOINT STATEMENT
A 21 April Peking broa;:cast in Cambodian of Sihanouk's "third message
to the Khmer people" included his remark that "in the next few weeks"
signatures would be put on a "Khmer-Vietnamese-Laotian joint communique,"
but the "full text" carried by NCNA on the 22d deleted this sentence.
NCNA also softened Sihanouk's comment in connection with his discussion
of the formation of a new government of national union, representing
him as saying that there is "a very sharp demarcation" between the
working people and progressive and socialist youth and the ruling
clique. The Cambodian-language version says that the "people's
liberation movement" and progressive and socialist youth are "struggling
to exterminate" the rulers and create a "people's socialist regime."
This is the first time Peking is ',.cnowm to have edited a SiAanouk
statement,
VNA's report of the Sihanouk message omits all the controversial
portions, including his references to the formation of a government
of national union and to local "people's resistance authorities,"
although VNA has periodically reported the formation of "provisional
committees" of the National United Front of Kampuchea. VNA omits the
references to the forthcoming "joint communique" as well; it follows
the NCNA version's reference to the "sharp demarcation" between the
workers and progressives and the regime in Cambodia rather than the
call for "extermination."
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HANOI REJECTS INDONESIAN SUGGESTION FOR ASIAN CONFERENCE
A ueriecr of utaLcmenLi beginning on 19 April by Indonenian Foreign
Mlnlater Adam Malik concerning the convening of an Asian national
conference to ;ii;,,:uuu the Cambodian olLuation hair gr_neraLed vituperative
.wnoi . * On the ;)8th Hanoi media e:Lrricd a report that
cornrncnt from 17
on Lhc '7th Lhc Indonesian charge in Ilanoi was called to Lhc DItV
Foreign Ministry where he was handed a memorandum demanding that, the
lndonecian Government cease its "slanderous arguments against t;hr:
DI+V" w.ibh regard to Cambodia. The memorandum "severely condemns
and resolutely rejects the convening of the so-called conference
of Asian countries to discuss the Cambodian affair," terming such
a conference "illegal and valueless." '!'he memorandum further
accuses Foreign Minister Malik of supporting the Lon Nol-Sirik
Matak "clique," being prepared to give military aid to Phnom Penh,
and of "actively" maneuvering in favor of convening an Asian nations
conference on Cambodia. Similar comment in rout'.ne-?cvel DRV
media over the past week has Include([ denunciations of his suggestion
that the ICC be reactivated as an efi'ort to "legalize" the Lon Nol
clique.
USSR, PRC SCORE INDONESIAN PLAN FOR ASIAN MEETING
MOSCOW Moscow denounces the Indonesian proposal in some press
comment which calls Indonesia an accomplice in U.S.
aggressive plans in Cambodia. A 27 April PRAVDA arts';le by Demin,
for example, notes that Malik discussed the idea with the U.S.
r,nd Japanese ambassadors. Demin acknowledges that the Indonesian
Foreign Minister proposed the conference to "avert civil war and
foreign intervention in Cambodia and reactivate the ICC,"** but he
says that civil war is already being waged in Cambodia and that there
is evidence of "direct U.S. interference" there. Demin says the
"overwhelming majority" of the participants in the proposed conference
are members of SEATO and ANZUS who are "linked with the imperialist
According to Indonesian reports, Malik intimated that the
objectives of the proposed conference would be the "prevention of
civil war and foreign. intervention in Cambodia," and also the
"reactivation of the ICC" there. Malik reportedly said that North
Vietnam, Cambodia, and South Vietnam are to be among the countries
invited,
** Moscow never mentioned Lon Nol's 30 March request that the 1954
Geneva conference cochairmen reactivate the ICC and that the UN
Security Council send an observer team to Cambodia to check
Vietnamese communist involvement.
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