PRESIDED OVER'S* VIENTIANE SIDEiACTIHft CHIEF DELEGATEHONG
VONOSAY AND LAO PATRIOTIC FRONT (LPF) ACTING CHIEF DELEGATEa THIENGThaM. THE FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS has THE TEXT'OF THE JCIA PAPER ON THE HITHDRAHAL
or EI on TROOPS FROM LAOS! C- HAD BEEN REVIEWEDY PRADITH AND VIENTIANE SIDE DELEGATE
fscuNOL. the modified paper has agreed to
amo-flflNED ot BOTH SIDES, THE TEXT OF THIS PAPER FOLLOWS,
"SOTH SIDES then APPROVED ANDOINT
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letter addressed to the prime minister hhich concerned
the withdrawal of troops from VIENTjAne. IN the letter.
A request has made for government funos to implement the troop
hithdrahal. both sides have agreed to the withdrawal
of lao arhed forces (far) troops down to the level of
uthorized for the protective military force (pmf) provided
that far is able to obtain the funds toilitary base
at kilometer (km)hich is outside of Them buffer
HE VIENTIANE DELEGATION THEN RAISED THE SUBJECT OF THE HISSING-IN-ACTION (MIA) LIST OF LAO. THAI AND
americans which the vientiane side had submitted and
which ThE lpf said they had forharoed to sah neua. ThE
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lpf said that the lsst had been fqrharded to the leaders
in sam neua. but so far no answer had been received. the two
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AGREED TO SETUB-COHHITTEE HEADED BY COLONEL PHAO POUNNAPHOL POP THE LPF SIDE AND COLONEL ARYA PHlMMASONE FOR THE VIENTIANE SIDE TO HANDLE THE MIA MATTER, ,
4, THE VIENTIANE DELEGATION THEN ASKED THE LFFIP THE LATTER HAD ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON MEN, |
MHOhAD DISAPPEARED AND HERE THOUGHT TO BE IN LPFLPF SAID THEY HAD NO ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. DELEGATION THEN MENTIONEDIENTIANETEAM IN PAKSE MAD HEARD OF TWO EUROPEANS WHOBY BOAT TO THE VILLAGE OF OU THOUM KHAQ IN IN AN AREA CONTROLLED BY THE LPF, AND WERE INOF THEIR OWN FREE WILL ASSOCIATING WITH THEIN THE AREA. THE VIENTIANE DELEGATION SAIDTHIS IN CASE THESE HERE THE MISSING MEN. DELEGATION ASKEDThEY KNEW ANYTHING
ABOUT THE TWO HEN AT OU THOUM KAO. ThE LPFTHATID NOT BUT SAID IT WOULD CHECK THE VIENTIANE DELEGATION
DID HOTAR REPORTAR SOLDIER HHQ HAD
HAS AGREED TOEASE-fIRE MOBILE TEAM
TO THE VILLAGES OF PHU SOUNG/NANAHE IN MILITARY REGION II AND KMC U* SONG HONG IN MR HI TO INSURE THaT A PROBLEM DOES NOT DEVELOP BETHEEN THE FORCES OF THE THO SICES WHICH MOULD INTERFERE HITH THE OPENING OF ROUTE l3 FROM PAKSANE TO THAKHEK. THE TEAM HILL BE SENT <0 OR 21 JANUARY AND WILL INCLUDE COLONELS PHAO BOUNNAPHuL FOR THE LPF SIDE VONGPRACHANH FOR THE VIENTIANE SIDE.
ASKED THAT THE JCIAOINT
LETTER TO THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL UNION (PGNU)TING.it TO NORMALIZE THE SITUATION IN THAKHEK. AFTER DISCUSSION, KITHONG AGREED THAT THE VIENTIANEHAD NO OBJECTION TOETTER BEING WRITTEN. BUT HE'REQUESTED THAT SECRETARY OF THE CABINET. LANE PATHANNAV0N3 ASSIST IN THE PREPARATION OF THE LETTER WHEN HE RETURNS FROM LUANG PRABANG. PHAO BOUNNAPHOL WAS SELECTED AS THE L'F REPRESENTATIVE. KITHONG SAID HE WANTED LANE BECAUSE HE WANTED TQ WAIT TO SEE IF THE
QUESTION MAO BEEN RAISED IN THE CABINET MEETING AND IF SO WHAT THE RESULT HAD BEEN.
OINT POLICE FORCEPROTESTING THE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE ACTIONPERSONS ARRESTED WITHOUT CONSULTING WITH THETHONG SAID THAT SINCE THE JCIA HAD ALREADY WRITTEN
I THE HINISTER.QFETTER ON THISTHE JCIA SHOULD AWAITEPLY BEFORE TAKING FURTHER ACTION.
REFERRED TO AN AGREEMENT REACHEDHE AGO TO WRITE THE PGNU REQUESTING FUNDS FORMEDICINE FOR PERSONS DETAINED BY THE JPF. IT WAS
AGREED TO WRITE THE PGNU AGAIN,
9, THE PARTICIPANTS THEN DISCUSiEC THE RESETTLEMENT OP REFUGEES HiTH REGARD TO rOOD. RICE. TOOLS, THE AMOUNT OP MONEY NEEDED PER FAMILY POR THOSE RETURNING TO THEIR VILLAGES AND THOSE REMAINING IN THE VIENTIANEE. SOME QUESTIONED If THE PQNU HAD ANY MONEY FOR THESEI THONG AND LPF DELEGATE PHONEXAY SANTAVASY, who hAVE KEEN WORKINGUBCuHMlTTEE ONEETING THEY HAD WITH THE VIENTIANE REPRESENTATIVE OP THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSION rOR REFUGEES (UNHCR) DURING WHICH UNHCR AGREED TO GIVE FUNDS AND SUPPLIES PROVIDED UNHCR COULD AUDIT HOW THE FUNOSERE SPENT AND was PERMITTED To HAKE PERIODIC VISITS TO THE REFUGEE AREAS, IN DISCUSSING MODES OF TRANSPORTING ' THE REFUGEES BACK TO THEIR VILLAGES. THE LPF NOTED THAT
IT WANTS TO USE ROTAL LAO AIRIRCRAFT. KITHONO AND PHONEXAY MENTIONED THAT UNHCR IS PREPARED TO PROVIDE ruNOS POR. GASOLINE rOR THE AIRCRArT. IT WAS NOTED, THAT THE REruGEES FROM BORJKHANE PROVINCE WHO WANT TO RETURN TO THEIROTALEOPLE. HAVE PIROGUES
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FOR RIVER TRANSPORT AND NEED ONLY HONEY FOR POOD-IS. KITMQNE QUERIED PRADITh WHY AN LPF PMF GROUP. WITHOUT VIENTIANE SIDE PMF PARTICIPATION. ENGAGED IN STOPPING TRAFFIC AND SEARCHING VEHICLES IN THE ARE* OF KM6 ON IS JANUARY. KITHONG ADDED THAT SUCH ACTIONS HUST BE THE RESULT OF AGREEMENT By BOTH SIDES AND THAT BOTH SIDES MUST PARTICIPATE IN ORDER THAT THE POPULACE MILL NOT HISUNDERSTAND AND THINK THAT THE LPF AND THE VIENTIANE SIDE ARE NOT COOPERATING. PRADITH ADMITTED THAT THE ABOVE ACTIONISTAKE AND SAID THAT HE HADNIT OF THE LPF PMF TOUMOR THAT THE VIENTIANE SIDE WAS ENGAGING IN ILLEGAL MILITARY MOVEMENTS ON THE 1STH AND THAT THE UNIT HAD MISUNDERSTOOD HIS ORDER AND EXCEEDED HIS INSTRUCTIONS. THE MATTER HAD 6EENNBROU6HT TQTTENTION BY
LUENGRATH OF THE COMMISSION FOR THE NEUTRALIZATION OF
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VIENTIANE CITY, AND PRADITH HAD IH TURN CALLED BACK ThE
UNIT 'INVOLVED IN THE ACTIVITY. PRADITH APOLOGIZED FOR.
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TMJG^.INCI DENT AND STATED THAT IT WOULD NOT HAPPEN AGAIN.
ICOMHENTI ONANUARY. THE SAME LPF PMF UNIT
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MAS REPORTEDLY STOPPING VEHICLES AT THE CROSSROADS AT THA NOON. EVEN FURTHER OUTSIDE OF VIENTIANE CITY THAN KHGAIN WITHOUT VIENTIANE SIDE PARTICIPATION.)
KITHONG then protested the actions OF CHANSON e.
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A jHIMBER Or THE LPF REFUGEE COHHlTTEEi WHO
|lS RAKING PROPAGANDA AT THE REFUOEE VILLAGES IN AN EFFORT TO PERSUADE THE REFUGEES TO RETURN To THE LPFi^pj -AS
.VILLAGERS THAT THE PGNU WOULD GIVE THEM THREE TI-FS THE ASSISTANCE IF ThEY RETURNED AS OPPOSED TO WHAT THEY WOULD
:RICEXVEk IF THEY REMAINED IN .THE VIENTIANE SIDE TERRITORY. CHANSON!.CITED THfi CHEAP COST OF SEWING MACHINES. BICYCLES. AND OTHER MACHINERY IN THE LPF ZONE AND STATED THAT IF THlOT RETURN. NOW THEY WOULD LOSS THEIR ONE
.OPPORTUNITY. ANDANDS WOULD BE CONFISCATED AND
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REDISTRIBUTED TO THE PEOPLE IN THE LPF {ONE.
12. THE LPF THEN BROUGHT UP TWO INCIDENTS INVOLVING
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FAR. THE LPF SAID THAT FAR VOLUNTEER BATTALIONH SPECIAL COMMANDO TROOPS AND TANKS CAME TO MENACE THE VILLAGES OF PHONE MY. PHONE HUNG AND THA LAT. KITHONG
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REPLIED THAT THIS UNIT HAS SENT To ASSURE ThE SECURITY
OF THE AREA IN VIEH OF STUDENT UNREST. KlTHflNO ADDED
THAT IN ANY CASG-THlSART OFHfCH HAS TKl
RESPONSIBILITY OF'THE VIENTIANE SIDE. THE LPF SAID THAT
ONANUARY'THERE ARACHUTE DROP BY FAR TROOPS
AT THE VILL*GE' OF'BAN HOUANA AND ASKED IF THIS HAS NOT
A RE-ENFORCEMENT OF POSITION BY FAR. THE VIENTIANE DELEGATION
SAID THIS HAS NOT A TROOP RE-ENFORCEMENT BUT A TRAINING
EXERCISE MIX-UP BY |
INSTRUCTORS ON THAT DAY RESULTING IN AN OVERSIGHT IN
ANNOUNCING THE CHANGE. ARACHUTE
J WHICH USIO "TO BET1 HATTAY AIRPORT ANO WHICH* AT THE REQUEST OF THE LPF HAS BEEN HOVED OUT OF THE CITY. MORE THANJUMPED THAT' DAY AND LpF TROOPS OBSERVING ThIS NUMBER OF PARlCHUTISTSDISTANCE CONCLUDED THATF'EnFORECEMENT OF FAR TROOPS.) T THB END OF THE MEETING. ThE TWO SIDESEXCMAfOED COPIES OF THE SIGNED AGREEMENT ON WITHDRAWAL OF FQBE ION TROOPS. 'HE TEXT CF WHICH FOLLOWS!
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"text of the withdrawal or foreign troops and, ' ! personnel fromroer to implement article i, itemrticlendf the vientiane agreement andandf itsn order. to protect and implement the sacred and .inviolable national fundamental rights, namely. independence, .sovereignty. unity and territorialf laos. the joint committee for the implementation if the agreement (jcia) of vientiane and patriotic force sides has unanimously agreed to layumber of regulations concerning the dissolution of. thfc foreign parahllitary and military orbanuations and the withdrawal of foreign troops and military personnel fhomnd the dissolution or the * special force b'ses organized and armed by foreign countries *'and;;concerning the discontinuation of military involvement in laos. both sides shall continue to negotiate to implement.the content of these regulations to make them 1more complete, if necessary.
a. the withdrawal of foreign troops and military
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J. THE WITHDRAWAL OF TROOPS AND MILITARY PERSONNEL. INCLUDING MILITARY ADVISORS, MILITARY TRAINING UNITS, SPECIALIZED UNITS. ALL SERVICEMEN WHO SERVE IN CARRYING OUT MILITARY TASKS, AND ALL MILITARY PERSONNEL WHO HIDE THEMSELVES IN EMBASSIES AND CONSULATES EXCEPT THOSE WHOSE NAMES ARE ON THE EMBASSY LISTS AND ARE ALREADY ACKNOWLEDGED BY THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE NATIONAL UNION (PGNU) AND EXCEPT THOSE WHO ARE MENTIONED BY4 2 GENEVA AGREEMENTS, OF. AND THAILAND AND OTHER COUNTRIES HUST WITHDRAW FROM LAOS WITHIN) DAYS
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after 'thc'establishment a* the PGNU AND the JOINT NATIONAL political council YnJPO, :'V
EACH SIDE MUST INFORM THE other SIDE IN FULL DETAILS ABOUT 'THE WITHDRAWAL OF FOREIGN troops AS MENTIONED IN ITEM it' DETAILS must CONTAIN. 'W.^ATlON-fclTT,
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PROCEDURE1 OF WITHDRAWAL* AND
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2. IH DISSOLVING THE SPECIAL FORCE AND ITS BASES* MILITARY FOUNDATION. STRONGHOLDS. THE CONCERNED SIDE MUSTETAILED PLAN TO THE OTHER SIDE AS FOLLOHSl
NAME (UNIT. BASE. STRONGHOLD. MILITARY FOUNDATION) , TYPE ! i
SERIAL NUMBER
LOCATION! v I jj UMBER (MEN. BASES. UNITS. MILITAR. FOUNDATIONS.
STRONGHOLDS)1.
ARMS EQUIPMENT AND SO AND TIME OF ABOLISHMENT
-DISCONTINUATION OP THE FOREIGN MILITARY THE TROOPS Or EITHER SIDE ARE ABSOLUTELY PROHIBITED TO RECEIVE WEAPONS AND WAR MATERIALS OF ANY KIND FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES. IN CASE OF THE NECESSITY TO REPLACE DAMAGED [WEAPONS AND WAR MATERIALS. BOTH SIDES MUST DISCUSS AND AGREE HiTH EACH OTHER,'
2. BOTH SIDES MUST STRICTLY COMPLY WITH THE PROVISIONS OF2 GENEVA ACCORDS ON LAOS. CONCERNING THE PROHIBITION OF BRINGING INTO LAOS ALL KINDS
BOTH SICES SHALL PROPOSE AND ASK THE ICC FOR COOPERATION.
INIOLATION OP THESE REGULATIONS IS CONFIRMED. BOTH SIDES AGREE TO SEND THE MOBILE UNIT TO INVESTIGATE AND SOLVE THE PROBLEM HITH THE COOPERATION OP THE ICC-
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ACTING REPRESENTATIVE OP THE PRESIDENT OP THE JCIA OP THE PATRIOTIC FORCE (SIGNED AND SEALED) (THAN) PADITH ThIENGTHAH
VIENTIANE.5 ACTING REPRESENTATIVE OP THET OP THE JCIA OP THE VIENTIANE SIDE (SIGNED AND SEALED) (THAN) KITHONG VONGXAY*
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