INDO-CHINA TRUCE

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27405, 19 July 1954, Page 9

INDO-CHINA TRUCE

Agreement Claimed “In Sight”

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The agreement would contain recognition of the complete sovereignty, independence, unification, and territorial integrity of the three sta.es—Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, he said.

In reply to a French proposal that a demarcation line should be drawn at the 18th parallel the Vietminh delegation had put forward a line between the 13th and 14th parallels.

British Assurance To China (Rec. 9 p.m.) s GENEVA, July 18. Britain today assured Communist China that if an IndoChina armistice were agreed at Geneva, which would neutralise Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, there could be no question of these states joining the planned Southeast Asian Alliance, authoritative sources said in Geneva. Mr Eden, the British Foreign Secretary, gave the assurance to Mr Chou. En-lai after the Chinese Prime Minister had expressed his concern about the effect of a Western-sponsored regional grouping on an Indo-China armistice.