CABLE TO AMEMBASSY PHNOM PENH FROM THE WHITE HOUSE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-249-2-16-6
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: September 30, 2011
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: March 3, 1973
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/09/30: LOC-HAK-249-2-16-6
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MARCH 3, 1973
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FROM: HENRY A. KISSINGER
REF PHNOM PENH 1820
1. THIS IS IN RESPONSE Tr1 REFTEL COVERING CAMBOOIANSt INQ')IRFS
ON MY TALKS IN PEKING' TO SUPPLEMENT SULLIVAN'S BRIEFINGS ON THE
HANOI LEG. YOU CAN TELL THE CAMBODIANS THE FOLLOWING ON A CLOSE HOLD
BASIS' WITH THE CLEAR UNDERSTANDING THAT THIS INFORMATION IS FOR THE
LEAQERSHIP ONLY?
2. IN PEKING' AS WELL AS IN HANOI' I EMPHASIZED THE FOLLOWING
THEMES:
-- WITH SETTLEMENTS IN VIETNAM AND LAOS, THERE MUST NOW RE PEACE
BROUGHT TO CAMBODIA. WE HAVE ALWAYS TAKEN THE POSITION THAT THE
CONFLICT MUST STOP IN ALL OF INDOCHINA IF THERE IS TO BE STABLE PEACE
IN ANY PART OF IT.
IN ANY EVENT THERE SHOULD BE A PROMPT WITHDRAWAL OF NOFTH
VIETNAMESE TROOPS FROM CAMBODIA' AS WELL AS LAOS' AS STIPUL,:TFD IN
ARTICLE 20 (B) OF THE VIETNAM AGREEMENT. THIS OBLIGATION IS NOT TIED
TO A FINAL SETTLEMENT IN CAMBODIA OR ANY OTHER CONDITION.
-- THE LON NOL GOVERNMENT, AS ANNOUNCED AHEAD OF TIME' SHOWED
MILITARY RESTRAINT IN AN EFFORT TO HALT HOSTILITIES. THE(COMMUNISTS
HAVE NEVERTHELESS CONTINUED THEIR OPERATIONS.
--IT IS IMPORTANT TO GET DIRECT NEGOTIATIONS GOING AMONG THE CAMB-
ODIAN PARTIES. I SAID I BELIEVED THAT IF THERE WERE A CEASE51RE AND
WITHDRAWAL OF FOREIGN FORCES' THE LON NOL GOVERNMENT WOULD TALK
SERIOUSLY TO THE OTHER CAMBODIAN PARTIES IN AN EFFORT TO FIND A
SOLUTION.
3. IN RESPONSE' THE CHINESE TOOK THE POSITION THAT CAMBODIA AFFAIRS
SHOULD BE SETTLED BY THE CAMBODIANS THEMSELVES AND THE PRC SHOULD.
NOT INTERVENE. THEY MAINTAINED THEIR SUPPORT FOR SIHANOUKY THOUGH
MORE MILDLY THAN IN THE PAST' AND SUGGESTED I SPEAK TO HIM' WHICH OF
COURSE I REJECTED. THEY 010 AGREE THAT A SETTLEMENT WOULD AF EASIER
IF THE CONFLICT WERE PURELY A CIVIL WAR AND ALL NON-CAMBODIAN TROOPS
LEFT. THEY WERE RECEPTIVE TO THE CONCEPT OF A NEUTRAL' INDEPENDENT
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CAMBODIA BUT DID NOT WANT TO RE DRAWN INTO SPECIFICS.
4. IN SHORTS MY VISIT GAVE US THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT OUR
STRONG VIEWS ON CAMBODIA. THE CHINESE, IN TURN, GAVE THE IMPRESSION
THAT THEY 448ULD NOT OBJECT TO DIRECT NEGOTIATIONS AMONG THE CAMBODIANS.
5. WE WILL , OF COURSE, KEEP THE CAMBODIAN GOVERNMENT INFORMED
OF ANY SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENTS WITH RESPECT TO HANOI OR PEEING. IN
Tl)RN, WE HOPE THEY WILL'KEEP US POSTED ON THEIR OWN DIPLOMkTIC
INTENTIONS AND ACTIVITES?
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