THAI PRIME MINISTER 'READY' TO MEET KHMERS TO ESTABLISH RELATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-238-7-30-7
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: June 11, 2010
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: July 28, 1975
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/06/11 : LOC-HAK-238-7-30-7
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HAI PRIME MINISTER '.READY' TO MEET KHMERS TO ESTABLISH RELATIONS
BANGKOK POST IN ENGLISH 2S JUL 75 P I HK
11(EXCERPTS) PRIME MINISTER KHUKRIT PRANOT RETURNED FR0?i 'A
WEEK-LONG REGIONAL POLICY-MAKING TOUR YESTERDAY AND DECLARED HIMSELF
READY TO FLY TO PHNOM FENH TO SET UP RELATIONS WITH KHMER ROUGE
CAMBOD IA..
ONLY HOURS BEFORE HE GAVE HIS AIRPORT PRESS CONFERENCE RADIO
PHNOM PENH WELCOMED KHUKHIT'S EARLIER ST &EI E1 S x,;AT THAILAND
WAS READY TO BE FRIEcDS WITH CAMBODIA Ann SAID THAT THE NEW
GOVERNMENT WISHED TO HAVE CLOSE RELATIONS WITH THE THAI,
VIETNAMESE AND LAO PEOPLES.
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PRIME MINISTER KHUKRIT YESTERDAY EMPHASISED THAI IT WAS ;vv, THE
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OUR DUTY NOT TO INTERFERE IN THEIR INTERNAL AFFAIRS."
HE SAID HE WAS READY TO MELT THE NEW KHMER LEA tERS IN EITHE
BANGKOK OR PHNOM PENH ArwD ALSO OFFERED TO PROVIDE AID IN THE Fok,?i
OF FOOD AND CONSTRUCTION MAjERIALS FOR RECONSTRUCTION PRHrOSES IN
THE WAR-RAVAGED COUlNTKY?
KIiUKRII'S OFFER OF AID AND TALKS WAS T iE LATEST MOVE IN
STEADILY WARMING CLIMATE OF POLITICAL RECONCILIATION.
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TO DATE THERE HAVE BEEN NO DISCLOSED OFFICIAL COi}i+i UNICA.IONS .
BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES, ALTHOUGn SEVERAL MEETINGS HAVE TAKEN
PLACE ALONG THE THAI-CA,"ibOD IAN BORDER BETWEEo LOCAL OFFICIALS.
THE. LATEST SUCH MEETING OCCLRED AT PEIFET LAST WEEK, WHEN A
KHMER ROUSE REPRESENTATIVE TOLD IS THAI COUNTERPARTS THAT CAMBODIA
r1rnr DESIRED DIPLOMATIC AND TRADE TIES WITH THAILAND.
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No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/06/11 : LOC-HAK-238-7-30-7