University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, September 26, 1990
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Diplomat urges normal ties
Rapprochement is key to ending Cambodian war
By Tatsuya Shimizu
Kansah staff writer
A U.S. diplomat said yesterday that normalization of U.S. Vietnam relations was the key to settling the civil war in Cambodia.
David Lambertson, diplomat-in-residence, talks about Cambodia.
David Lambertson, diplomat-in-residence in the political science department, spoke to about a dozen people at the second lecture of the Worldview Luncheon series in the Kansas Union.
Lambertson is deputy assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific affairs in the State Department. He is at KU this academic year observing science classes and speaking to science about his specialty, East Asian affairs.
Creating a condition of self-determination for Cambodians is a goal of the United States, he said.
About two weeks ago, Cambodia's Vietnamese-backed government and leaders of rebel factions agreed to a United Nations peace plan that calls for power sharing and free elections among the country's four factions.
He served as a foreign service officer in Vietnam and Indonesia during the Vietnam War and spent two years on the Paris Talks on Vietnam in 1973.
The prevention of the Khmer Rouge from taking power is important, he said. While the Khmer Rouge was in power from 1975 to 1979, more
Lambertson said that the United States and Vietnam supported the United Nations resolution plan that called for each of the four factions to be represented in a governing council.
Hun Sen is the premier of the People's Republic of Kumpucha that was declared by Vietnam and backed by the Soviet Union Prince Norodom Sihamuk was the Cambodia leader and is now a non-communist guerilla leader. Son Sann was a former premier and now is a guerrilla leader of the non-communist Khmer People's National Liberation Front. The Khmer Rouge, which ruled Cambodia in 1975 to early 1976, is backed by China.
Until the U.S. government is certain that no U.S. soldiers are being held in Cambodia, the United States and Vietnam will not attain a normalized relationship.
David Lambertson KU diplomat-in-residence
than 1 million people were killed in executions and forced labor.
He said that the United States strongly opposed the Khmer Rouge's participation in the new regime, which is the Supreme National Council.
Allowing the Khmer Rouge to participate in the council is like allowing the Nazi party to take part in the contention after World War II, he said.
The normalization of U.S. Vietnamese relations also is important for other reasons, Lambertson
said. There are about 2,300 U.S. soldiers missing in Vietnam.
The State Department suspects U.S. soldiers still can be held against their will in Vietnam, he said.
Although there is no evidence of this, many soldiers who were kept as prisoners of war have not come back, Lambertson said.
Guess this question is answered,
the United States and Vietnam will not reach the normalization of their relationship, he said.
Xuan Tran, Overland Park senior, said she supported normalization of U.S. Vietnamese relations.
She and her family emigrated to the United States from Vietnam when the communist government in Cambodia took over. South Vietnam in 1975.
"Vietnamese people are not doing very well economically." Tran said. "If relations are normalized, they will be able to get loans from the World Bank and IMF to restructure the government."
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
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