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Number 21, September 2001
of Democratic Kampuchea shall be correctly,
completely, and cohesively implemented. The
Constitution is the soul of Democratic Kampuchea
and the basis for domestic and foreign policies on
various fields ranging from political economy, social
affairs, and culture, which stems from the fresh blood
of millions of children of Kampucheans from several
generations. Therefore, there shall be respect,
observation and implementation at full strength.
2) Strengthen and extend the force of great
national solidarity with higher revolutionary
vigilance for the defense of the country, territory,
independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity within
the existing boundaries, and with high responsibility
for the revolution, nation and our people of
Kampuchea.
3) Strengthen and extend the force of great
national solidarity for shock assaults in terms of
production in all fields, especially agriculture, to the
point that a maximum yield of rice shall be reached
for upgrading the living standard of our people and
building our country with the speed of a great leap
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forward.
4) Continue to implement the political line of
the independence, peace, neutrality, and nonalignment
of Democratic Kampuchea by virtue of
article 21 of the Constitution of Democratic
Kampuchea.
There shall be a strengthening and extension of
the solidarity and fraternity with all revolutionary
movements in various countries of the world, near
and far, and with youth on the five continents, who
love peace and justice including the ones in the
United States of America, in order to struggle against
imperialism, old and new colonies, and reactionary
forces for the sake of the revolution, independence,
peace, democracy, fraternity and social development
in the international arena.
The first session of the first legislature of the
People’s Representative Assembly concluded on the
evening of April 13, 1976 with great success,
revolutionary optimism, and strong belief in the
glorious future of the nation and people of
Kampuchea.
DEAR RESPECTED MO-81 [OFFICE 81]
Telegram 157, [1155 characters] File number D1962
On the morning of 4 March, an official from the
Consulate of the French Embassy in Beijing came and met
us [Khmer Rouge officials] at the embassy and gave us a
declaration of the government of France dated 2 January
1978. We attach herewith the declaration in French.
In the meantime, the official asked about the
situation of conflict between Cambodia and Vietnam, its
evolution, and our stance towards settling the conflict.
Both [Cambodia and France] raised the subject of friendly
relations between the two countries.
He affirmed that the foreign minister of France
permitted him to meet [us] in order to grant this
declaration and also to ask for confirmation on the two
subjects.
We informed him about the conflict, the causes that
led to the conflict between the two countries [Cambodia
and Vietnam], the evolution of the current situation on the
border, and the diplomatic maneuvers that Vietnam has
been staging to distort international views in regard to the
5 February 1978 declaration of its government. We further
stressed that the conflict was not attributed to the unclear
border delineation as set forth by the Vietnamese. This is
because the resolution with respect to the border issue was
stated clearly in the joint declaration between the
government of Cambodia and that of Vietnam in 1966. We
informed him about our stance toward solving this
conflict, emphasizing the same points as we did to other
embassies.
In addition, the official asked us if we would agree
to have a third country to help handle the problem in case
the situation continued to drag on. He also told us that the
government of France did not know of any attitude by
Vietnam concerning its declaration of 5 February 1978.
He further said that in the past, the French foreign minister
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