Khmer Rouge FM Ieng Sary declines an invitation to Thailand, whose officials still indicate readyness to resume diplomatic relations. But a lower level KR official is authorised to buy Thai fuel and rice for Cambodia. Sary complained that he pays smugglers 3x the market price.

The outgoing President of the @UN General Assembly Abdelaziz Bouteflika (file photo), the Foreign Minister of Algeria, complains in his leave‐taking address of the “mistakes” of countries that had blocked UN membership for the Communist government in Cambodia. OnThisDay, ©@AFP https://t.co/VfzUCqWOGX

Youri Chmanevski, Soviet Charge d’Affaires in Laos, says China is interested in stirring up trouble in Cambodia but will be hampered by the dispersal of the PhnomPenh ethnic Chinese community who has been forced to evacuate out of the city along with everyone else.” Son Sen and other Khmer Rouge officials, as well as Prince Sihanouk attend a military parade at PhnomPenh stadium, where Deputy Primer Minister Khieu Samphan gave a speech. OnThisDay. Video: https://t.co/amTD5sgkD2

@ramanjr @KRTribunal I also could not match the exact photo with this very comprehensive set of photos of Khmer Rouge and other Cambodian officials from that time but I am also not very good at recognizing persons on blurry photos so you might still be able to find him here: https://t.co/d0RqoUrNfT @ramanjr Most likely he has been identified, but unfortunatly I cannot say for sure. @KRTribunal has this photo without any names and I cannot find in my notes where I found mine. https://t.co/KVR3kIf11O

Prince Sihanouk chairs a cabinet meeting attended by Khieu Samphan, Ieng Thirith, Koy Thuon, Son Sen and other Khmer Rouge officials, but was not allowed to speak. Sihanouk told Radio PhnomPenh that he was “very satisfied” with the reconstruction work. https://t.co/LTYVAVIaya Smugglers slip around barbed-wire to cross over the Thai-Cambodian border bridge. A thriving smuggling business has cropped up, which the Khmer Rouge permit, because of a lack of supplies in Cambodia. OnThisDay © @AFP https://t.co/5bIH7ulD82

Prince Sihanouk is welcomed by hudge crowds at PhnomPenh’s airport. Khmer Rouge Defense Minister Son Sen gave a welcoming speech. Sihanouk is widely expected to become a roving ambassador for Cambodia. [1st scene of video shows a dinner in NorthKorea] https://t.co/Z7eNgcgyr3 Prince Sihanouk (c.) receives a colorful farewell as he leaves Beijing for Cambodia after more than five years in exile. The Prince, who is Cambodia’s titular head of state, was accompanied by Premier Penn Nouth and Deputy Premier Khieu Samphan on his flight to PhnomPenh. https://t.co/ABLjLJeW3Z

Sihanouk also pledged support to the struggle of the “fraternal” Palestinians and stressed that Cambodia sincerly serves world peace. Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping meanwhile highlighted the importance of Sihanouk’s return for building a truly democratic Cambodia. At a banquet for Chinese leaders in Beijing, Prince Sihanouk declares that Cambodia fervently wishes the prompt return of Taiwan to the “bosom of her motherland, the People’s Republic of China” and demands that @UN and the US cease their military occupation of SouthKorea. Sary also gave his perspective of the Mayaguez incident. He said there is enough food now but in April PhnomPenh had to be evacuated because due to lacking transport,…

A recap on what happened in Cambodia in August 1975 under the Khmer Rouge: https://t.co/suuxmCGlT2 A recap on what happened in Cambodia in July 1975 under the Khmer Rouge: https://t.co/XBdyd4hyzt A recap on what happened in Cambodia in June 1975 under the Khmer Rouge. https://t.co/ApqQwqeQ0y

A US embassy cable says the film that showed PhnomPenh streets strewn with abandoned vehicles, “clearly got the message across that the new Cambodia has become a disciplined, spartan, society.” https://t.co/gfziXALLCb At a reception at the conference of Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Non-aligned countries in Lima, Peru Khmer Rouge Deputy Premier Ieng Sary showed the film “A HEROIC PEOPLE”. [If anyone could post a link to this film, it would be highly aprreciated] “The Cambodians love you and owe you a lot. Please remain as their Head of State. Don’t forget that the grounds of understanding between you and your Cambodian Communist comrades are more numerous than those that…

Khmer Rouge’s Khieu Samphan and Prince Sihanouk held “talks on problems of mutual interest held in a friendly atmosphere” with Mikhail S. Solomentsev, Russia’s Chairman of the Council of Ministers (picture) in Hanoi on the sidelines of Vietnam’s 30th anniversary celebrations. https://t.co/x0t6GE7jlH