Speaking to journalists in Beijing, Prince Sihanouk rules out to collaborate with the Khmer Rouge, says his dream is Cambodia becoming “the Switzerland of Asia” & says if Vietnam withdraws from Cambodia the KR would come back, so he deplored the US call to do so.

After 28 days on a bicycle with his wife riding pillion, Seng Son reaches Thailand from Eastern Cambodia. Fearing Khmer Rouge ambushes he said “we were careful to travel on a stretch of road only after Vietnamese trucks had passed by.” https://t.co/oCxbjBRVLz

Kim Tuan,one of Vietnam’s highest ranking commanders in Cambodia, dies from the serious injuries he sustained the day before when he was ambushed by the Khmer Rouge on the way to Siem Reap.

The Soviet Union vetoes a @UN Security Council resolution calling for an end to Vietnam’s armed intervention in Cambodia and China’s invasion of Vietnam. Vietnam has done “nothing wrong in Cambodia” & China’s aggression was not condemned “in a clearcut manner”

Speaking in Moscow, Ros Samay, General Secretary of Cambodia’s Salvation Front (KUNFS) says deep changes are underway in🇰🇭. Peaceful construction is aided by the Soviet Union. He says the Khmer Rouge killed nearly 3 million Cambodians. https://t.co/QpY5wz6PsW The @UN Human Rights Commission takes no action on Cambodia, as the non-aligned nations pushed through a motion to adjourn debate, so Canada’s resolution on human rights violations in Cambodia never came to a vote.

In a note to @UN, Khmer Rouge ambassador Thiounn Prasith states Vietnam’s losses from March 9 to 13 and claims that the KR killed Cuban troops alongside hundreds of Vietnamese. https://t.co/IkVgczn5uc

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At the @UN Commission on Human Rights,the Chairman of the Sub-Commission on the Protection of Minorities, Adelwahab Bouhdiba, presents an analysis of events in Democratic Kampuchea & concludes that the situation “constituted nothing less than autogenocide”

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

China withdraws its troops from Vietnam after affirming that its troops attained their set objectives. They had been “compelled to strike back in self-defence against the Vietnamese aggressors”.