The First Period | YUU Organization

1978

Ieng Sary requested an emergency meeting from the UN Security Council to condemn Vietnam

1979

Prince Sihanouk requestede aid of the U.S and the U.N . He said: “I hope the United States and the great American people will help us to expel the Vietnamese from Cambodia"

1979

5 ASEAN Countries - Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore - requested the intervention of Vietnam into Cambodia and apprehended the regional security

Nov 14th 1979

The 1979 United Nations Security Council election was held from 26 October 1979 to 7 January 1980 during the Thirty-fourth session of the United Nations General Assembly, held at United Nations Headquarters in New York City, including the Kampuchea Situation

The vote of 140 countries about the ousted Pol Pot Regime

Keeping the official chair in the U.N 50.7%

Vancant chair of Cambodia 25%

Abstention 24.3%

The call for the immediate withdrawal of all foreign troops of 15 security council members

Accept 86.7%

Veto 14.3%

This is a victory for you, Prince Sihanouk ... That is why the member countries kept quiet, so as not to hinder you in the Security Council and the international scene. If you were not here as the representative of Democratic Kampuchea, we would come out and say that the government [of Pol Pot] only got what was coming to it.

The choice for us was between moral principles and international law. The scale weighed in favour of law, because that also served our security interests.

The diplomat avocation of Vietnam in the U.N Security Council

"In two weeks, the world will have forgotten the Kampuchea problem" - Ha Van Lau -

The different reactions

The U.N Security Council did not ignore this problem in "two weeks" but alarmed it, which led to the continous ten-year meetings. It was attracted by the media and the International community. In the research, some analysts argued that Vietnam forgot including the humanitarian reasons for their intervention, which prevented Vietnam from persuading the right of their intervention.

What led to Khmer Response

The U.S and China supported for Pol Pot Regime

What led to the U.N

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Humantarian reason

The concern of Sihanouk problem

Accordion Content

‘Why does the UN recognise Pol Pot? The UN should help us capture Pol Pot – why are they protecting him?’ Many correspondents found themselves facing the same despairing questions: ‘How can it be?’ ‘Don’t they know Pol Pot killed my husband and my two brothers?’ ‘They killed my whole family and yet why does the UN support them?’

Irish Time - Tom Fawthrop - the interview of insiders