AFP CITES SOURCES IN PEKING ON BUSH LETTER TO SIHANOUK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-106-8-21-2
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 4, 2009
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: April 11, 1975
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

No Objection to Declassification in Full 2009/12/04 : LOC-HAK-106-8-21-2
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AFP CITES SOURCES IN PEKING ON BUSH LETTER TO SIHANOUY,
OWr1110652 HONG KONG AFP IN ENGLISH 0647 GMT 11 APR 75 0'4
(T'7-XT) Pr KING, APRIL 11 (AFP) --GEORGE BUSH9 HEAD OF
THE A '?;~ICAN LIAISON OFFICE HERE, RECENTLY SENT A LETTER TO
PRTNCF NORODOM SIHANOUK, CHAIRMAN OF THE KHMER NATIONAL
,r,ITrP fl ON)T (NUFC) SUGGESTING THE E>TAPILISUUMENT OF CONTACTS,
~PIN71 TO A NUMBER 07 UCUALLY %,)E1.)_-TNFOR;1ED F3RIE"-
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",OURCE!~ 11r,137.
SOURCES SAY THE LETTER r''AS SENT AS OUT 121 DAYS AGO AND
THAT MR BUSH ACTED NOT ON A PERSONAL BASIS OUT AS VASHIISTO")'S
OFFICIAL REPRESENTATIVE.
IT IS NOT YET KNOWN WHETHER THE PRINCE HAS TAKEN ANY
SUBSEQUENT ACTION.
THE PRINCE'S ENTOURAGE, QUESTIONED BY AFP, AT FIRST
flENIED THE R .PORT, THEN WITHDREW THE DENIAL PENDING
!"1)RT`)Er IN!'ORMATION WHICH HAD TO BBE SOUGHT FROM PRIM E SI'HA^!OUK
HIM SELF AND WHICH HAS NOT YET PEEN FORTHCOMING.
AFP' S REPEATE1) QUESTIONS TO THE AMERICAN SIDE HAVE BEEN
MET EACH TIME WITH THE REPLY: "WWWE ARE NOT IN A POSITION
TO COMMENT".
IT IS ALSO LEARNED FROM AN INFORMED SOURCE THAT PRINCE
SIHANOUK RECEIVED SOME DAYS AGO A TELEGRAM FROM THE INDONESIAN
FOREIGN MINISTER, ADAM MALIK. THE CONTENT OF THE
MESSAGE IS NOT KNOWN.
OBSERVERS RECALL THAT PRINCE SIHANOUK, IN HIS LATEST
STATEMENTS, ACCUSED INDONESIA OF "INTERFERENCE" IN
(A%17f1DIA':; AFFAIRS AND OF "COMPLICITY`WITH THE UNITED
' :1LLOWING INDONESIA'S OFFER OF ITS GOOD OFFICES
I NIF;~")TI4TIONS BETWEEN THE OPPOSING PARTIES IN CAMBODIA.
T)!r. VERY PRINCIPLE OF NEGOTIATIONS OF ANY KIND HAS
-;~)'N STEADFASTLY REJECTED BY THE ROYAL GOVERNMENT OF
KHMER NATIONAL UNION (RGNUC). THE MOST RECENT REJECTION!
WAS MADE TN THE NAMF- OF KHIFU SAMPHAN, THE COMMANDER IN
CAM O!)TA OF THE KHMER RO!)GE FORCES.
11 APR 119'12Z Pr,fTM
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IND OC HI,NA-.DECLARAT ION
!Y'NEIL DAVIS
PHNOM PEIJH, APRIL 11 REUTER - THE CAMBODIAN GOVERNMENT
TODAY ISSUED AN OFFICIAL DECLARATION EXPRESSING REGRET OVER
PRESIDENT rORD"S STATE OF THE WORLD SPEECH LAST NIGHT -- IN
WHICH HE SAID IT MAY BE ALREADY TOO LATE TO PREVENT THE FALL
OF PHNOM PENH TO THE COMMUNISTS.
THE DECLARATION, ISSUED BY THE INFORMATION MINISTRY, SAID
THAT ""WE ARE PROFOUNDLY DOWNCAST"" BY PRESIDENT FORD"S SPEECH
AND ""WE HAVE NOTED THAT THE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. HAS AVOIDED
THE RESPONSIBILITY OF REQUESTING AID FOR THE CAMBODIAN PEOPLE
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""WE ARE DETERMINED TO CONTINUE OUR FIGHT TO SEEK A T
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EGOTIATLU. PEACE. THE ATTITUDE OF PRESIDENT FORD WILL NOT
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UIZ CONSISTENT POSITION, WHICH IS TO SEEK A CEASEDIRE {'
AS A PRELUDE TO THE CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES AND NATIONAL -jJ
RECONCILIATION,' IT SAID.
THE DECLARATION CONCLUDED BY SAYING THAT CAMBODIA WOULD NOT
HESITATE TO ""REVISE OUR POSITION VIS-A-VIS THE BIG POWERS.'
THERE IS NO CLEAR INTERPRETATION OF WHAT THE FINAL PARAGRAPH
NZA N T.
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INDOCHINA-DECLARATION 2 PHNOM PENH
BUT POLITICAL OBSERVERS FEEL THAT THE PHNOM PENH GOVERNMENT
COULD WELL TAKE STEPS AGAINST THE U.S. IF AID IS NOT
FORTHCOMING PROBABLY LEADING TO THE i3REAKING OF RELATIONS
BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES.
HIGH-LEVEL MEETINGS BETWEEN CAMBODIAN GOVERNMENT LEADERS
HAVE BEEN IN PROGRESS SINCE PRESIDENT FORD SAID IN HIS SPEECH
THAT IT MIGHT BE TOO LATE TO PROVIDE FOOD AND AMMUNITION FOR
THE PHNOM PENH GOVERNMENT.
RELIABLE POLITICAL SOURCES SAID THERE WAS A POSSIBILITY
THAT THERE WOULD SHORTLY BE A NEW ADMINISTRATION FORNED UNDER
THE LEADERSHIP OF THE OPPOSITION DEMOCRATIC PARTY LEADER CHAU
SAU.
HR. CHAU SAU HAD ACCEPTED AN INVITATION FROM ACTING
PRESIDENT SAUKHAM KHOY TO FORM A NEW GOVERNMENT WITHIN TWO OR
THREE DAYS, THE SOURCES SAID.
IT WAS EXPECTED THAT PRIME MINISTER LONG 3ORET WOULD
ANNOUNCE HIS RESIGNATION AND THAT OF HIS ENTIRE CALINET WITHIN
48 HOURS, THEY ADDED.
O SEhVERS SAID THE NEW CABINET WAS LIKELY TO CONSIST
LARGELY OF OPPOSITION MEMBERS AND OTHERS OUTSIDE THE RULING
SOCIO-REPUBICAN PARTY OF LONG BORET.
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INDOCHINA-DECLARATION 3 PHNOM PENH
SOME INDEPENDENT MEMBERS OF THE PRESENT CABINET, INCLUDING
DEFENSE MINISTER AND ARMED FORCES COMMANDER GENERAL SAK
SUISAHHAN, WERE LIKELY TO 81: RETAINED IN THE NEW CAI.INET, THE
SUUhCk:.; SAID.
NN, CHAD SAU HAS NOT SERVED UNDER PRESIDENT LON NOL AND
100 WkLN A CUNSiANT CRITIC OF THE MARSHAL"S REGIIriE. HE HAS IN
1dh FAST U. GED THE PHNOM PENH GOVERONENT TO SEEK A
"ZOJNI:Ii_I&1OA' i, ITH THE KHMI R R. URGE INSLJ GENTS.
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