S/PV.1118 Security Council

We bave hstened attentivsly to the alear and oo~ent statement of the representativo of Gambodia, exposing the orimfnnl armed aggressicn pe ” trated against this small neutral State Member a the United Nations, We fully ehare the serious concern and profound indf~ation of the Cambodian Qovernment, 68. The sssenae of the uuestion now before the Seaurity Counoil is also o”fearfy formulated in the message from the Seoretary of State for Foreign Affairs of Cambodia transmitted on 19 May 2964 by tha representativs of Cambudia to the Fresidsnt of the Ssuurity Couno [S/6887], BB, At issue are the renewed aots of arniad aggresaion against a Young independent State-Cambadia, These aots, aa indicated in the messasie from the @ambcdfan Ssoretary of State, inolude 6iolations of territorial inteprityfl in regard to this State Membsr of the United Nations and aths murder of defenueless alvilian Populations, a11 of whloh aots are indisputably violations of the Charter of the Umtsd NationsR, 70, The ag@sssion against this small aauntry le the ~QFB aerious in that the. obfeat of tho @ambedian aom- Plaint of aots of aggression agafnst it 1s the United States of Amerioa, one of tho Sreat Fowers and a permarient memkr of the Seourity Counoil, Despits the fnoontrovertible evidenoe Presentsd by the Cambcdtan Qovornment, the representative of the Unibd Statss tried a moment ago Co set aside the faote and whitewash the aSgreesor% orimfnal actions, His statement aan only bs desoribed as an effort to assasafnate trutb itself. 71, The aggressivs aotions of the United States in regard to Can&&a, as we ses from the deouments prssented to the Seourity Counoil, ars of a twofold n5tursr ths first abpeot, as indioated in the enPlanatory memorandum of the Cambddian Oovernment tranemittad on 16 Aprll by the representativs of Cambodia to the Pwsident of the kourity Counol (eee S/ Bk3Bjl fs the dfreot partioipatfon of the armed foraes of tha Unitad States in the aotions against Cambadia aarrfsd out at ths bsglnnfn f of this ysarg In ths msssage transmitted on 1S May, he furthsr statement should ba notud that HUnitsd States offioere had taken part in Ehosa la& two sots of aggrossfon” again& Cambochaths nets parpatrntud only a faw days ngos on 7 and 8 May. Chia, briafly, is ono aspoot of Do problom, 7% At tha uama timo, ths explanatory motnorandum of tho CambocJian Qovornmont statos that: Vii0 Iluynl Uovernmc3nt conefdaia that tho Govornmont of the Umteod States of Amorion boara a hanvy responslbility in this mnttor in vlow of tho part it 74, For this very reason the present situation lnthat part of the world oonstitutes a serioue threat to peaoe and seourlty, The military operatlons oonduoted by the United Rates are me&nwhile oauueing irreparable harm to the psoples of South-East Asla, The dire oonsequences of the aggressive aotions of ths United Rates bave unfortunately affeoted Cambodia, whose aovernment 1s today obllged to appeal to the Seuurlty Clounall for proteotion, 78, Let me turn to the faots whioh Gambodia hae presentsd ta the Seoutity Counoil, These frote do not merely speak, they slsiek sloud. They relate, first of all, to a oontinuous seriea of violations of the BOY~- reignty of aam bpit ta and of the inte air and eea fron !T ity of its land, ero. The numher o suoh violations in 1968 totalled 26B, and during the firet monthhs of lQ64 fifty-two suoh violations bave already taken plaoe, Thers are aleo the three moet far-reaohlng and oriminal aots of aggression perpetrated against Cambodla during the paet three months, 76, It ie in theae last three aote that the direot role of the United States in the aggression againet Cambodia ia moat olearly seen. 7’1. TO begin with, on 4 February 1964 two South VietNamere afraraft barbarously maohlns-gunned and bombsd the Cambodian village of Mong, killingfivs persona and woundin six, The Cambodian Qovernment% deolaratlon 4 o 16 February [sec S/5666] on this matter say “As regard6 Unikd States responsibility for this brutal a $s” salon, no one, the State Department least of a 1, 1s unawars of tbe faot that the United Statea oommand in South Viet-Nam in faot direots militaiy operations and that Unikd States pilote putidpate personally in mort aerial bombing opratf0n@‘, 76. Further, on 16 Maroh 1864 seven military airordt bearing South Vietnamese insignia bombed the Cambodian village of Chantrea, whioh was subscquontly invadod by twolvo armourod vehiolos of the M-113 type. As a reeult of this aggrossion, savontoonpoaoeful Cambodian villanors were killod and fourtaon $1, Thus the faot of dire& partiaipation by the United States-Amerioan eoldiers and offiueers-in the aote of aggresdon against Cambodia, and their direction of these operatione, fa not open to the slightest doubt-lt is indlsputable. $2, The question lnevitably arises: what is this ail about? What kind of threat oan Cambodia, a small country thousands of miles from United%Itates shores@ aresent to the United Otates, whioh is one of the most powerful aormtrles in tbe ivorld? Why, we wonder, espeotally of latc should the United States bave thought it posslbla to 8anot10ny aonduot and dlreotly partloipate in aots of aplgression against neutral Cambadla? 8%. The reason for SO flagrant a violation of the eoverel F” ty of an independent oountry, for the United Itates Iouting of the fundamental provisions of the Unitsd Nations Charter, is ohiefly-as pointed out by Prinas Norodom Sihanouk, Head of the Cambodlan State, in an interview he Lave in Am!i1 of this year- Chat tithey are afraid of oÜr example of independent developmentH, 84, It ts a well-known faot that, in order to strengthen thhe polléioal and eoonomio independenoe of îts oountry, the Cambc&?n Qovernment at the end of VMS took deoleive stepe to restriot fore@ oapital and to re- înforce the role of the State inthe Cambodian eoonomy. We also know that in Novembar 196% Cambodia refused so-oalled United Eltates dd, whioh was offerod ondisoriminatury terme that were humiliatingto an independent Rate, In thie oonnexion Prinos Norodom Sihanouk saidt aThe Unitsd Statee of Amerioa gave our Government dollars but prohibited their u8e for the import of industrial equipment, thus impediw the development of the Stab seotor in industry,~ Prinoe Norddom Sihanouk went on to say: Wtber logioal ooneequenoee of the rejeotion of Unitsd Statss aid were nationaliaaticzn and the transfer e0 the State d foreign trade and the bank6.n :$a There stepr of the Cambddian Governmentfor the “4th enin# of the oountry’s lndependsnae reaeivsd the fu 1 support of the Cambadfan people, but for Camhodia’s enemles they served as a pretext for a fieroe ncw nttnok agninst thîs ponou-loving oountq and lta WUtlYLlity. 9%. The latost largo-son10 milltnry aotions undertakon an’nln& Cnmbodiu bv the Unltad Stntoe nul South Rot-Namose trompa oan*only !XI vfowod RU tho moet flngrnnt sxprassion of tha IIOW oampnign of blaokmail and intimidation bolng wngal of lato ngninst Cnmboclfa. 81, Tho prouont armoti notions of tho Unitod Stntus- %OU~I~ Viet-Nnmaoo military oliquo aghst Cnmboclin Kqwasont n developmont of tho nggrosslve wnr whioh tlk3 Unitod Stntes lu18 for aome yonra nowboon waglng ~Resaonsibilitu for the situation that has arisen In &h Viet~Nam~, stat6s a Tas8 oommun’qu0 of 86 February 1884, Y?ests first and foremobc with the United States of Amerioawhioh, ingross violation of its obligations under the 15364 Gieneva Agreements, sent its troope into South VietcNam and launohed an a f ressive war against the South Viat-Namese peop 8,” 89, Q]n the direot initiative of the United States, the bloody war in South Viet-Nam is eaoh monthbeooming more monstrous in aaope, As le k.nown, there are at present some 18,000 United States troops in South Viet-Nam, Aooording to estimates in the United States Press, the United States is spndlng on the oonduot of tbe war $1.6 million a day, or approximately $800 million a year. And now, while the Seourlty Counoil is aondemning the oriminal United States aggression, Washington is deoiding whethar to spend an addîtional @a6 million an intsnsifying and extending the aggression and bloedshed in South Viet-Nam, 90, It is, of oouree, no seoret that some people would liks to make it seem as if the United States offiosrs and other ranks in Sauth Viet-Nam had nothing whatever ta do with the direot oonduot of milltary operations or with the destruotîon of tbe peaeeful population, but were merely performin %peolalistsR and f the quite inoffensive funations of advisersN, Things have reaohed the staags whem, as the Christian Soienoe Monitor reportad in its issue of 14 May 1984, one Unitsd States officer, in an 8x088s of aeal to whitewash the role of the United igta&troops, apparently saidl @X%e ev8n been a baby- . 91. However, th8 faots epsk differently. Aotually, these sa~oalled ababy-stttersR are oynioallydireotfng punitive operations in the course of whîah the peaoeful population, fnoluding inncoent ViebNamese obildren, are prishtag, Even the United States Press says that at least 4,000 United States serviaemen In South Viet- Nsm are reaeiting the higher pay whloh tbe United States Army vea dtrsotly parti of exolusiwly ta offioers snd men pating in military opratione, 02, We bave been foroed to dwsll on this aspot of the mattar, beoause attempts are also nowbeingmade to mnko it ooem ns though tbo Unitod Stntos militnry who direot tba ng~roasivo uotions ngainst Cnrnbcdia nro paoplo vlrtually unoonneotod with tha nggrousi!3 wainst Cambodia; nnd tliig oalls for oommont, I’hc ranl role ulauad in thie nron bv tire so-oallod Unit& Stntos nd&&s, who take pnrS in a11 operntions of South Vi&Nameso troops-inoluding na oxl~rlonoe shows, tboir ngg;roeoivo notions against Cninbo&nolui bc soon from tho lottors of n captnin of tha Unitod StntoB Air X”of00, Jarry Shunk, &io wns reoontly ldlled in Iiouth Viot-Nam. After this, 1s it aurprising that, as the United Kinp dom weekly paper The observer says, the So%?hViat- Nameee warrlore bmcym thatthe UnitedStates regards them as mere pawns? 94, One should also remember the highly cloquent admtssiion made on 24 Am?i1 1984 at a Frsss oonfersncle by the Unitsd Statei Saorotary of Defense, Mr, MoNamara, In r.ePlY to oorresmndents’ auestione oonaerning how he feeit about the w& in South vietmN&I being oalled “MoNamara’s War”, the Unlted States RsfsïIse Seorstary said: a. “1 must say 1 don’t objeot ta its bslng oalled tMoNamara’s Warfr 1 think it is a very important war and 1 am pleased to bs identlfied with it,” Moreove& in the same oynical vein, the United States Beoretary of Defense aotually saidr “This is a war of the Unitad States Qovex+nmenP. This is oharaoteristio of the Unitsd States Governmer#s attitude towards the war in South Viet=Nam, Tbis le thhe testimonial @en by tbe Utited States Defense Seoretary himself. 96. However, oonsidering the role of the Utitad Statee in thés war, it ie not at a11 surprleing to find United States military at the head of the armed detaohments lnvadlng the territory of Cambxlla, Thisls no acoldent, but reflects the regular pattern, taires amdrioains A la t&e des oontingents arm8e teurs des aotsa d%@ession oontre le t3un 98, Mc#eovsr, the faets show that it la the Unlted States military in South Viet-Nam who Initia@ the aggresslve aotions agalnat Cambod& Only reoently, on 9 May, The New York Timea sa& in a report fr0m Sdgon, that “Amerioan advisera bave bsen ur&g that the border be dtsregardeds, That îs, the border wlth Camboella should be dîereearded, Judnfn~ from the newspaper report, thsse Anïerloti rnillfa$ think that ail they need to do, befora mountfng an invasion of Cambodian territory, id advance the theory that +hssa borders are violated of neoesslty, in order thnt tho foroos of t110 Nntlonal. Libarntton li’ront of South Vtet-Num may bo pursuad, Itowaver, tha abaurdlty of suoh oovor-up statamonts bus boen 0onvinoingly domonoixatcd by tbo Cnmbodlan Oovernmont. $ork faeee pas attentin front&e estiment tien 97, On oomprond d’un0 tcllo niontalit6 do lu part doa Infiit&roi oaine qui fcnt la loi au VlstwNaIn du Sud. 10 Camb0&0 oraiguii r6alit6 07, Thkl being 80, it il3 quita IlMlarstandnblo thut, faood with auob santimontu on the pnrt of tho Amarioan f~olcllory who @va Eh0 ordoro in Bout11 Viot-Nntn, Cnmbodin Inust inovltnbly nncl .justffinbly foar that whnt tha AmoPloaIls doscribe au tllo roault of “an oI?ror III Innp readlngH is in fnot the outcomo of a very oloarout polloy, 09. The proposa1 by the Head of Stat0 of Cambodia, Prinœ Norodom Sihanouk, that the Qeneva Confemnœ be 0onvened for the reoogniaing and parantseing of Cambodia~e neutrality and territorial integrity is the fouohstcme of tho true intentions of the United Stan% and son10 of its allies in regard to Cambodia, In faot, ff the Unitsd States does net in respeot of Cambodia have any hidden aime, not oorrebpondin$ toits officia1 statement& there should, it seemsl be no 1ustifioation i!or preventing the oonvening of euoh a oonfer?noe, Only aomeone who really objaots to the neutrality and terdtorial integrity of Cambodia being guararieed would be dissatisfied with ths proposai Made by t;;a Read of Rate of Camhodia regarding the oonvening 0P the Geneva Gonferenoe on CamhaCUa or would aotrally prevent the oalling of suoh a oonferen00, 100, As far as the Soviet Union is oonoerned, evaryone knows that ths Soviet Uovernment has m0re than ono appsaled to the Qovernment of the Unit0d Ningdom, as Go-Chairman of the 1964 Oensva Confersnœ on Indo-China, and to the United States aovernment to aooept the proposa1 for the urgent oonvening of this ûonferenae, IF is regrettable that the aovernmente of thsso two oountries bave 80 far Siven no positive anewer to the appsal from the Soviet iI0vernment-a fa& whioh in itself is hardly oonduoive to the restoration of normal conditions in the region of the world with whioh we ars oonœrned, 101. One muet aleo oonsider those aotions by the United Statss, ths United KingdOm and uertain 0ther Western Powere whioh are oontrary to the epirit and letter of the 1904 aeneva Agreemeiite on the -queStion of Indo-China and whioh, in partioular, oonstitute a threat to the independenae of Cambcdia. 102, In this oonnexion, one oannot overlook the plans, made under the pretsxt of defending Cambodia, arbitrarily to extend the sphere of aotion of the SEATO ti military bloo to neutralist CamWa-plan8 whioh have bsen deoisively rsjeotsd by the people and Bovernment of thie freedom-loving St&, 108. In MS message ta the Ssoretary-aeneral of SEAT0 in April of this year# Prinœ Norodom Sihanouk shted, j,&r aI!qr *My aountry, whioh ir a sovereign and oompletely independent St&, oategorioally wfeots this ‘defenœf, whioh in faot amounts to a pwtrotorate that they am tryiig to foros upon us. R 104. Hegnrding tha allagntions by mombors of th0 SEATQ bloo tliat Qrnb0dia was monnood by son10 llnd of oommunist dang0r, Prinoa Norodom Sihanouk said: ~~Catnhodia roinintla the inombors of SEAT0 thnt k3inoa El10 truoo of 1064 t11e cloul~trias of tho sooialist oninp bave alwnyo troatad Cand.mcUn wid rospoot. on tho othar tmd, eortain oountrios whioh a u mmvvith aats of open aggression against this small Member of OUP Qrgadzation, Finally, we are fnoed with plans for a new infringement of the soverolgnty and indap%ndenoe of thia oountry, whioh is pursuing a polioy of poeitiv% neutrality and of non-altgnment with military paots and bloos, 107, One must pa due tribut% to the sourage and selflessness of the reedom-loving Cambodlanpeople, P whloh 1s holding its banner hlgh in the struagla to d%fend and strengthen fts independenos against fore@ aggr%ssor& Th% Head of Stikte of Crn~Wa, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, said fn hls oountry’s Parliament on 17 Maroh XQ6B: “1 say t0 the Unkted Stat%s, whloh is trying to question the agreements and international deoisions fixing our boundaries, Md to our pro-West%rn n%ighbours, who are plotting ta seize our border provinu%sr Stop, we shall retreat no further, If you want to invade us, go ahead. But 1 warn you that we shall fight to the laet mari who 1s able to hold a rifle, a sabre or a olub,” 106, The juet position of Cambodia, whose people is puit% determined to defend th% independenoe of ite aountry, 1s supportad by a11 peaae-loving foraee. The Soviet Union has always supportad and oontinues to support the oourageous struggle of the people and Qovernment of Cambedia. In a telegram addreeeed to the Head of State of Oambodia, Prinae Norodom Sihanouk, on 96 Maroh 1964, the Head of the Soviet Qovernment, N. 8, Khruehohev eaidt “Th% Qovernment and people of the Soviet Union have always sino%r%ly eympathized wfth the efforts of the Camlaedian Qovernment andpeople to strengthen their national indep%ndenca and the territorial integrtty of thetr oountry. In thiz great oauuBe, wo have always supportad and are prepared to oontfnue to support your peaoe-loving oountq.~ 109, The Beourity Counoil, as the crgan of the Unitad Nations with ptimary reer&neibllitv for the maint%nanae of iniernati~nal 1>oao%, o&not ignora tho nlnaming sftuation whiah hns arison and whioh lias lmn dosorib%d in %ss~tm% in th% Cambodlan oomplnint. 110, It ia impoasil~lo not to 80% that tha oonstnnt provoontions and aggresslve note by the imporlalists ngninst Cnmbodin nr% dosignecl to aompol thls aoudry to abanciot~ tlm nautral hkqmdont oourso lt 1~1s been followin~ in its foraian polioy. Attompts nro thus boin~ mado ù&ore tho oyos Of tho‘wholc w;rki to us0 foxo for tho pur~ot38 of diroot intorvontion in the Interna1 nffairs Of à sovorefgn stato, in flugrant violation of th8 Unitod Natibna Charter, l’lm clang~ presonted to 11% The @oviet delegation oonsidere mat, inexisting oiroumstanoesr there is obviously an urgent need for an international oonferenoe on Cambodia, whiohwould give to thiie oountry faoilities for peaoefulindependent development and help to restore normal oonditians in South-East Asia, 119, Xn view of the late hour, I ehall not insist on a @onseoutive interpretation of this statement into other languages apart, if you aare% into Frenoh, provided that on other oooasions there oan be interpretation into the other European languages, it was 80 deofded 114, Mr, YOST (Wnited States of America) 1 shall detain the Counoil only two minutes, 116. The representative ofthe 8oviet Union has ohosen to divert the CounoilQ attention from the aomplaint of Cambodia to a pneral examination of the role of the Wnited States in the war in Viet-Nain-whioh was not even raised by the representative of Cambodia, Tothe extent neoessary to olarify the subjeot w!~! Jh 1s aotually before the Counoil, we shall deal latc v3.h the Soviet allegations. 1 should merely iike to suy at this time that 1: am sure a11 the members of the Counoil, inoluding the repreaentative of the Soviet Union, are quite aware that the only reaaon why the Wnited States ia supplying military and teohnioal aid on a large soale to the Qovernment of the Republio of Viet-Nam, at the rsquest of that Qovernment, ie that Elauth Viet- Nam ie being subjeoted to a large-soale, ageressive, aommunist, armed aesault organieed, direoted, supported and supplied from outside South Viet-Namt an aseault, furthermore, whioh is designed to subvert the independenoe of the Republio of Viet-Nam and to deprive ite people of their right to live under the sooial system whioh they prefer. 116. Tho PRESIDENT (translated from l%onoh): 1 bave no furthor speakore on my liat for thia inorning. 117, Yasterday 1 received n telegram from tha Milli#tm for - -8lgti Affairs of the Republio of Viot- Nain [~/6700, 3t. Xl raquaeting me to postponc the opming of Chia dabato for two wooka, 1 folt unable to aaoada to thia requeat, booause of tho date on whioh tho inoidents montioned ~II tha Cambodlnn roquest ooourrad and ~180 in vlaw of the reprasontations reoently mn& to me by ths rapresentntive of Camboclia. HOW TO OSTAIN UNITED NATIONS PUBLICATIONS Unltrd Nations publleatlm may ho abtained frac baakstarrs and dMr&utan thraughaut tha warld. mita ter Unlted NaMans, Sala COMSNT SE PMCU&ER LES PUBLICATIONS Lsc publkatim drr Nutlonr Unies sont agrnca d6pasltalrn du mande entirr. 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