ABSTRACT
[Indochina’s comprehensive response to ASEAN’s UN diplomacy and the ICK came in Laotian Foreign Minister Phoun Sipeseut’s speech to the 36th UN General Assembly in October, 1981. After attacking Chinese policy as the root of the problems of peace and stability in Southeast Asia, and again rejecting the results of the ICK, he presented seven principles to govern relations between Indochina and ASEAN. Although in many respects a restatement of positions adopted by the semiannual Indochinese Foreign Ministers Conferences, it also included a proposal for a structured setting for regular ASEAN-Indochinese exchanges. The text excerpted is as given by Vientiane radio, October 7, 1981, as reported in Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Daily Report: Asia and Pacific, October 14, 1981, p. I-1.]
