18 March 1979

Vietnam’s ambassador in France dismisses China’s intent to withdraw and says they could only start negotiations after a “real retreat” of Chinese forces to the other side of the historic frontier as established in a treaty in 1958. He puts China’s loses to 45,000.

Vietnam, Laos, Afghanistan and the Soviet Union’s delegates walk out of the @UN meeting of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacfic (ESCAP) as they refuse to listen to the Khmer Rouge delegate about to take the podium:
https://t.co/JOcY3hgSns