ON THE . DF THE TO IMPLEMENT THE AGREEMP.NT (JCIA) HAS HELD AT LAOS PATRIOTIC FRONT (LPF) HEADQUARTERS AT PHONE -AY UNDER THE JOINT CHAIRMANSHIP OF VIENTIANE SIDE CHIEF DELEGATE SOUKAN VlLAYSAN AND PlF CHIEF DELEGATE SOTH PHETRaSY,
ASOF THE HOST DELEGATION. PROPOSED DISCUSSION
OF FIVE TOPICS 1 THE RETURN OF REFUGEES TO THEIR VILLAGES! THELcAOERS FROM THAKHEK. ARRESTED BY THE VIENTIANE SIDEHELD INACCORDANCE HITH THE DECISION OF THE
PROVISIONAL GOVfcRNMENT OF NATIONAL UNION (PGNU). ARE TO BE TuRnED OVER TO THE JCIA! WITHDRAWAL OF VIENTIANE SIDE TROOPS FROM THE PREFECTURE OF VIENTIANE! DESIGNATION OF HOT POINTS AND THE OPENING OF LINES OFFROM BAN HOUEI SAI TO LUANG PRABANG AND FROM PAKSANE TO THAKHEK! AND MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS.
SOUKAN ALSO PROPOSED DISCUSSION OF FIVE TOPICS! THE EIGHT DEMONSTRATION LEADERS FROM THAKHEK) STUDY OF THE MISSING IN ACTION (MIA) QUESTION! WITHDRAWAL OF FOREIGN TROOPS FROM LAOS! THE REFUGEE QUESTION) AND ThE DESIGNATION OF HOT POINTS AND THE OPENING OF ROAOS.
AFTER SOME DISCUSSION BOTH SIDES AGREED* AT LPF REQUEST,
TO cover the refugee question first, following reports by both
SIDES. THE JCU DECIDEDEST PLIGHT MOULD BE MADE ONANUARY TO PHONE SAVANH IN THE LPFHE PLAINS DES JARRES. WITH TWO HELICOPTERS PROVIDED BY THE LAO ARMED FORCES (PAR). ROYAl AJO LAO (RAL) OBSERVERS AND POSSIBLY REPRESENTATIVES OP THE CIVIL AVIATION DEPARTMENT HILL GO ALONG TO DETERMINE WHETHER67 AIRCRAFT CAN LAND AT PHONE SAVANH AIRFIELD. IT HAS ALSO DECIDED THAT IF NO TECHNICAL PROBLEMS ARISE TO CAUSE DELAYS. THE FIHST RAL FLIGHT TO PHONE SAVANH.h REFUGEES ON BOARD. SHOULD TAKE PLACE ONANUARY. RAL HAS AGREED TO ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR MOVING THE REFUGEES FROM RESETTLEMENT VILLAGES TO HATTAY AIRPORT. AND FROM HATTAY BY PLANE TO PHONE SAVANH. RAL DOES NOT AGREE. TO PROVIDE FOOD SUPPLIES FOR THE REFUGEES. THE JClA WILL STUOY THE QUESTION AND MAKl RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE SUM OF MONEY NEEDED TO THE VIENTIANE OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES. THE JClA ESTIMATES THAT TWO DAYS' FOOD SUPPLY MILL BE NEEDED FOR RETURN BY AIR AND FIVE DAYS' FOOD SUPPLY FOR RETURN BY LAND.
5. DURING THE'DISCUSSION OF HOT POINTS, IT HAS DECIDED THAT ONEASEFIRE MOBILE TEAM WOULD BE SENT TO PHOU SONG-NANANE. THE TEAM WILL LATER TRAVEL TO ThAKHEK. WHILE LOUN SISOUNOLOUNNAPHOL WERE IN THAKHEK ON
IB THfcV EXAMINED THE AREA AND HADE THE NECESSARY DECISIONS REGARDING THE PLANTING OF THE STAKE. ONGPHRACHANH AND PHAO HILL STUDY THE HATTER AND PRE PARE THE NECESSARY PAPERWORK IN VIENTIANE PRIOR TO THEIR TRAVELEAM TO THAKHEK.
THERE MAS DISCUSSION OF OPENING LINES OF COMHUNICATION BETWEEN BAN HOUEI SAI AND LUANG PRABANG. THE LPF DELEGATION SAID THAT LOCAL AUTHORITIES ARE DISCUSSING THE HATTER.
THE JCIA DISCUSSED THE DISPOSITION OF THE EIGHT DEMONSTRATORS ARRESTEO IN THAKHEK. IT HAS DECIOED THAT ThE JClA SHOULD ACCEPTIN LINE WITH THfc PGNU'S REQUEST. IT WaS FURTHER DECIDED. HOWEVER. THAT THE QUESTION SHOULD BE STUDIED BEFORE THE EIGHT ARE HOVED TO VIENTIANE,OUNHIENGTHAM WILL ACT AS ATO STUDY THE QUESTION AND DRAWOINT COMMUNIQUE. THE LPF DELEGATION WANTS TO DISCUSS AND REVIEW NOT ONLY ThE CHARGES MADE AGAINST THE EIGHT BUT,ALSO THE CHARGES MADE BY THE EIGHT AGAINST CIVILIAN AND MIuITARV OFFICIALS IN THAKHEK, THE VIENTIANE SIDE DELEGATION REFUSED AND AGREED ONLY TO in INVESTIGATION OF WHETHER
OR NOT THE EIGHT HAD COMMITTED WRONGFUL ACTS DURING THE DEMONSTRATION,
DISCUSSION OF THE WITHDRAWAL OF VIENTIANE SIDEThE PREFECTURE OF VIENTIANE. THE LPF ASKED WHETHER THE LAND FOR
THE VIENTIANE SIDE PROTECTIVE MILITARY FORCE (PMF) CAMP HAD BEEN THE VIENHANE SIDE DELEGATION REPLIED THAT IT HAD NOT AND THAT LOCAL LANDOWNERS HAD BEEN ATTEMPTING TO RAISE THE PRICE OF THEIR LAND. IT HAS AGREED THAT THE VIENTIANE NEUTRALIZATION SUBCOMMITTEE SHOULD REVIEW THE QUESTION WITH THE PREFECTURE OF VIENTIANE. IN CHARGE OF NEGOTIATIONS WITH LOCAL LANDOWNERS.
DURING THE DISCUSSION OF THE MIA ISSUE. THE VIENTIANE SIDE DELECATES POINTED OUT TO THEIR LPF COUNTERPARTS THAT FAR HAD FURNISHED COMPLETE LISTS OF ALL MISSING VIENTIANE SIOE TROOPS AS HELL AS FOREIGN TROOPS LISTED AS HISSING. IT HAS ALSO NOTED THAT THE FOREIGN TROOPS HAD BEEN IDG NT ITS TO THE DAY, DATE AND LOCATION OF THE ACTION IN WHICH THGY HERE INVOLVED OR THE AIRCRAFT CRASH SITES. THESE LISTS. THE LPF DELEGATION WAS TOLD. SHOULD BE SUFFICIENT IN ACCOUNTING FOR MANY OF THE HISSING, IF THEY ARE DEAD. THE LPr SHOULD BE ABLE TO PROVIDE BURIAL OR CRASH SITES SO THAT REMAINS MAY BE RECOVERED, THE ISSUE WAS PRESENTED AS BEING Or EXTRfiHE INTEREST. NOT ONLY TO THE FOREIGNERS BUT ALSO TO THE .WIDOWS AND CHILDREN OF THE MISSING, THE VIENTIANE-SIDE DELEGATION NOTED THAT THE LPF HAD NOT ASPROVIDED COMPLETE LISTS OF ALL RCUTZvES AND THEIR DISPOSITION. WHEREAS FAR HAS FURNISHED COMPLETE LISTS OP BOTH LPP AND NORTH VIETNAMESE ARMY
PRISONERS AND THEIR STATUS. INDICATING WHETHER THE* HAD RETURNEDOP WAR. DIED IN CAPTIVITY OR HAD BEEN RELEASED TO JOINSIDE. | HME NT I NEITHER SIDE MENTIONED ThE
NOR WAS THERE MENTION OP THE RECENT SHOOTING DOWN OP AN AMERICAN HELICOPTER BY THE : PATTha-HAVONG. VIENTIANE SIDE PMF COMMANDER. DID NOT ATTEND THE MEETING.)
18, ON THE SUBJECT OF THE WITHDRAWAL Of FOREIGN TROOPS PROMhImmaSONE0 HERE DESIGNATEDwo-man
SUBCOMMITTEE ON QUESTIONS Or MU'S AND THE WITHDRAWAL Or FOREIGN TROOPS.
11. SOTH RAISED THE HATTER or THE PR OL IP ER ATP LEAFLETS ONTREETS OF VIENTIANE. HE SAID THAT HA NY FACTIONS WERE PRODUCING THESE LEAFLETS* SOME OF WHICH ARE EXTREMELY INSULTING TO INDIVIDUALS. INCLUDING THE PRXTC MINISTER AND JOINT NATIONAL POLITICAL COUNCIL CHAIRHAN PRINCE SOUPHANOUVONG, BOTH SIDES AGREED TO HAVE THE JOINT POLICE FORCE (JPF) OF BOTH SICES HANDLE THE MATTER BY ARRESTING ANYONE CAUGHT DISTRIBUTING SLANDEROUS LEAFLETS. PRADITH REMARKED THAT HE HAD PERSONALLY SEEN PERSONS IN FAR JEEPS DISTRIBUTING
LEAFLETS IN THE EARLY-MORNING HOURS. THE JPF SHOULD USEMAY BE NEEDED. PRADITH ADDED. INCLUDINQ FIRING AT THEVEHICLES BEING SO USED* TOTOP TO THE LEAFLETS. THESIDE DELEGATION REPLIED THAT HANDLING THE HATTER IN SUCH ABE IMPOSSIBLE INASMUCH A$ SOMEONE MIGHT BE ACCIDENTLLYTHE POPULACE FRIGHTENED BY GUNFIRE IN THE MIDDLE OF THEPROMISED TO COOPERATE IN THE EFFORT TO HALT THE LEAFLETALSO PROMISING THE FULL COOPERATION OF THE VIENTIANE IN THE
12. (SOURCE COMMENT: NO MENTION HAS MADE OF LEAFLETS DISTRIBUTED BY THERGANIZATIONS. THE LAO STUDENr FEDERATION OR THE LAO FER YF LABOR, ALL OF HHlCH ARE LEI'TIST-ORIENTED GROUPS. THE VIENTIANE SIDE JPF HILL INTERPRET THE JCIA DECISION AS ONE DEMANDING STRICT IMPLEMENTATION OF EXISTING -AH, THE JPF MEMBER HILL HAVE TO SEE THE LEAFLET BEING DISTRIBUTED. READ THE LEAFLET TO DETERMINE WHETHER IT IS SLANDEROUS. AND THEN MAKE THE APPROPRIATE ARREST, THESIDE WILL AVOID TAKING ACTION WHERE THE LEAFLETS ARE GENERAL IN NATURE AND DO NOT IDENTIFY SPECIFIC INDIVIDUALS AS CRIMINALS. TRAITORS OR THE LIKE.)
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