Regime loathsome but... —Fraser
NZPA Canberra The Australian Prime • Minister (Mr Malcolm i Fraser) has described the; Pol Pot regime as loath-1 some, and that Australia’s! recognition of it does not imply approval. In a Melbourne tele-j vison interview, Mr Fraser said a step away from the! Pol Pot regime was.a step : towards recognition of the; Vietnamese-backed Heng; Sainrin Government. Association of South- [ East Asian Nations coun- i tries were in “the front i line” of problems that Vietnam-was causing. ) “None of that gives any . element of approval to Pol Pot and what Pol Pot has done, because that really is one of the most horrible regimes, perhaps the most loathsome regime that ever had power over a country,” he said. -■ T Mr Fraser said he would prefer in a sense that Australia did not have, to have any part of recognising the Pol Pot regime. ?! “But it is not as simple as that” i”
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Press, 1 September 1980, Page 6
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