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TELEGRAM NUi':3ER 721 OF 29 NOVEMBER4
INFO SAV I'IG TOKYO, WASH I .,lGTOM, UKI•1IS NEW YORK, U'KREP1, BRUSSELS,,r'
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i•i' TELEGRAM NO 417 TO CA!;r'0D I A DE-RECOG NI T IO?'I OF POL POT_
1. PLEASE DELIVER THE FOLLOWING i'ESSAGE FROM THE f' 1 1E MINISTER TO
-FF:E MI ER HUA GUOFENG:
BEG 1 NS
DURi " YOUR VISIT TO BRITAIN I GREATLY VALUED OUR EXCHANGE
Cr- VIEWS ADOUT I Do--CH I IA.
YOU !:'ILL REMEMBER THAT HEW YOU JOINED ME FOR DINNER AT NO
10 DOt•!U I'1G STREET, I SAID THAT 1 HAD E: EPI GLAD TO NOTE THAT YOU
Hf1D CR ITICISED SOME OF POL POT'S POLICIES: WE ;rE E ALSO STRO':rl-Y
OPPOSED TO THEM. I ALSO TOLD YOU THAT OUR CRITERIA FO RECOGiN I T ION
REQUIRED THAT A GOVk PR' :ENT SHOULD rE 11"I CONTROL OF THE COUP: f Z'{
Co CERMED AND THAT CLEARLY P̀OL POT'S GOVEP !''1 ''!T WAS NOT. I MADE
IT PLAI N, HO:'' VER, THAT WE HAD ABSOLUTELY PLO INTENTION OF
RECOGNIS ING THE REGIME CF HENG SAi R I : 1,'H 1 CfI' HAD TEEN I 1"ISTALLED rY
-ME V IE T NAMErE AID DEPENDED ON THEM FOR ITS SURV IVAL.
I KNOW THAT YOUR GOVERCONTINUES TO RECOGNISEr4''OCRAT IC ;;Ai- PUCHEA. HOWEVER THERE ARE OTHER, I MPOR T WIT DOVE R'is il'.E- NTS
WHO AR F I MLY OPPOSED TO V I ETNI; i '.S I '.' VAS I ON OF CA'• E3D I Aj WHOt r r PARTIES THERE-. :1t:lC_ HAVE N•r O" DECIDED THAT OU
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