Vietnamese to go?
NZPA-Reuter Paris Prime Minister Hun Sen outlined details of his plans for the phased withdrawal of about 100,000 Vietnamese troops from Kampuchea in an interview published in the French newspaper “Le Monde” yesterday. The removal of Vietnamese troops figured prominently in talks outside Paris last week between Hun Sen and the exiled opposition leader, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, on ways to end the conflict in Kampuchea.
Hun Sen, aged 36, told “Le Monde” an equal number of soldiers would return to Vietnam in each of three phases of withdrawal over a period of two years. /
Vietnam installed the present government in Phnom Penh when its troops invaded Kampuchea in 1978 and ousted the bloody Khmer Rouge regime.
In his talks with Sihanouk, Hun Sen demanded that the rebels match the withdrawal of Vietnamese troops by disarming 30,000 Khmer Rouge guerrillas, now the strongest fighting force in
Sihanouk’s loose threeway coalition. Hun Sen told “Le Monde” that the Khmer Rouge “could only survive if they continued to get help from China and Thailand” After last week’s talks, analysts said Sihanouk appeared to be increasingly willing to form a government with his rivals in Phnom Penh in a deal excluding the Khmer Rouge.
Sihanouk and Hun Sen have announced plans to meet again in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang in April to continue their peace probe.
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