Chronology of Cambodian History

Information Note of Romanian Embassy from Beijing
to Ministry of Foreign Affairs

23 May 1989, 09:00 am
Deputy Foreign Minister, Cde. Olimpia Solomonescu,

On 22 May, I was invited at the [Chinese] Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for a discussion with Dai Bingguo, the Director of the Bureau for USSR and East-European socialist countries. [He] gave a presentation on the recent visit by Mikhail Gorbachev in the People's Republic of China. The main points of his presentation were:

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3. In regards with the important situation of Cambodia, the Chinese have, once more, made clear their position:
A. It is necessary that the Vietnamese troops withdraw and that a deception be prevented.
B. After the withdrawal of the Vietnamese [troops], and before the elections, it is essential that a coalition government, formed from all the four factions and headed by the N. Sihanouk, be created.
C. To prevent a civil war, the reduction of [the existing] forces of the four factions to small and equal levels is necessary.
D. A [public] declaration must be made [in which] foreign aggression must be condemned. [The government of] Vietnam has not abandoned its plans for the formation of an Indo-Chinese Federation. The position of the Soviet [government] has remained different from the Chinese position, [especially] in regards with the main points: the Soviets are opposed to the formation of a provisional government and want, actually, to allow the Heng Samrin government to play [an important] role during the transition and maintain the consequences of the Vietnamese invasion. [The Soviets] are accepting the Vietnamese position.
In this problem there were no breakthroughs and the two sides agreed to continue consultations.

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(ss) [Ambassador] Angelo Miculescu

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Source: Cold War International History Project
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars