ABSTRACT

[The eighth regular meeting of the Indochinese Foreign Ministers took place in Vientiane at the end of January, 1984. Part 4 of their final communique renewed the call for a regional conference in the “five plus two” configuration. The statement can be viewed as the official response to the ASEAN “appeal”. The text is as given by Vietnam radio, as reported in Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Daily Report: Asia and Pacific, January 31, 1984, p. K-9.]