STATEMENT OF VIETNAMESE FOREIGN POLICY, PARTICULARLY REGARDING CHINA AND SOUTHE

Created: 10/15/1976

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SUBJECT! STATEMENT OF VIETNAMESE FOREIGN PARTICULARlv

REGARDING CHINA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA*IETNAMESp

FOREIGN M'NISTRY OFFICIAL

D X, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, ASIAN

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HIA'S PRIOR TO AGREEINGLD THE MEETING. *. ACTION HAD SUBSTANTIALLY INCREASED VIETNAM'SF. AND DAMAGED PROSPECTS TOR IMPROVING RELATIONS BE-

THEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES.

2. DIEH SAID ALTHOUGH BOTH TMf USSR AND THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC Or CHINA (PRC) HAD PROVIDEDO MATERIAL SUPPORT FOR VIETNAM'S LIBERATION. VIETNAM HAD ALWAYS PERSISTED INITS INDEPENDENT LINK* WHICH WOULD CERTAINLY BE CONTINUED AfTER UNIFICATION, ACCORDING TO DIEH. BECAUSE OP THE HUTUAL

SUSPICION BETWEEN THE USSR AND THE PRC* NEITHER WOULD HAVE HELPED VIETNAM IP VIETNAM HAD NOT ADOPTED AN INDEPENDENT LINE, 3, DIEM SAID VIETNAM'S FRIENDLY RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PRc WOULD BE UNAFFECTED BY THE DEATHE"TUNO. HE SAln WESTERN REPORTS TWl CHINA HAD STOPPED D To VIETNAM SINCE ThE ENO OFR HERE FALSE. E =. HE ADMITTED* The NATURE

of Chinese aid to vjetnah has changed since liberation, for

INSTANCE* THERE HAS BEEN MUCH LESS FOOD FROM CHINA aSTO THE WA* DAYS. DIEH ADDED THAT THE PRC DID SUPPLY VIETNAM MITM ALL The FOOD PROMISED IN CONTRACTS CONCLUDED BETWEEN THg THO

U THAT VIETNAM WOULD SUPPORT INDEPENDENCE AND LIBERATION MOVEMENTS IN OTHER SOUTHEAST ASIAN COUNTfllESl WOWEV ER VIETNAM WOULD NOT INTERFERE IN THE DOMESTIC AFFAIRS OF THOSE NATIONS. HE SAID THE REVOLUTIONARY FORCES OF THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN SKED VIETNAM TO PROVIDE WEAPONS BUT VIETNAM HAD TURNED DOWN THEIR REQUESTS. BECAUSE VIETNAM BELIC-VES THAT TO PROVIDE ARMS FOR REVOLUTIONARY FORCES IN OTHER COUNTIES WOULD BE INTERFERING IN THE DOMESTIC AFFAIRS OF THOSE COUNTRlFS.

9, DIEM SAID VIETNAM IS INTERESTED ONLY IN ECONOMICWITH LAOS AND CA MB OD IA AND HAS NO INTENTION R HIALLIANCES WITH TMfiM. VIETNAM'S POLICY TOWARDBE T3 COOPERATE WITH LAOS AND CAMBODIA SO THATACHIEVE ECONOMIC PROSPERITY. VIETNAM HOPES THAT BOTHCAMBODIA WILLOLICY OP NEUTRALITY, INDEPENDENCE

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