More Kampuchea aid

Press, 28 May 1980, Page 2

More Kampuchea aid

piNZPA London _ ' New Zealand would conL tribute another $250,000 in i, aid to Kampuchea, the DepL uty Prime Minister (Mr Tall boys) told a -specially conf vened conference on the troubled South-East Asian country yesterday. “Challenges "like Kampuchea calL forth'the best in the human spirit,” he told delegates at the meeting in Geneva. New Zealand has alreadygiven, ~ in Government' and private aid contributions, about $2.4 million in aid to Kampuchea. Mr Taiboys said that New Zealand, had also already pledged : to take a high per capita qiiota of Indo-Chinese refugees’- including Kampucheans, {and that New Zealand officials would go to Thailand next month to select another group of refugees from Kampuchea. “But generosity of spirit or indeed of cash for the humanitarian effort can only -provide’in the'final analysis the basis-.-. from-- which an enduring solution might be sought,” he said. , The ultimate goal must be to remove the cause and not

simply the results of the conflict.

Mr Taiboys said he regretted the absence from the conference of some Governments closely involved in the ' plight of Kampuchea, particularly the absence of a representative of Vietnam. Aid was not being given most effectively in Kam-

puchea. “It is . . . essential that members of the international agencies should be able to monitor the distribution of relief and satisfy themselves that it is benefiting those for whom it was intended,” .Mr Taiboys said.

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