ABSTRACT

[As new refugees from the war in Kampuchea flooded the Thai border regions, joining those who had fled to Pol Pot regime and the Vietnamese “boat people” were arriving on ASEAN shores the ASEAN Foreign Ministers addressed the problem in a statement issued as part of the special Bangkok meeting, January 12 and 13, 1979. The text is as given by Bangkok radio, as reported in Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Daily Report: Asia and Pacific, January 15, 1979, p. A-1.]