The reactionary Pol Pot-Ieng Sary clique, acting on orders horn Peking, turned Kampuchea into a testing ground tor the Maoists’ crazy ideas; the Kampuchean people came under threat of extinction.

p A. Usvatov,
C. Shmelyov

p New Times, No. 37, 1978

“In its desire to end the armed conflict and bloodshed without delay and to start negotiations at once, the government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam proposes that the two sides (Kampuchea and Vietnam—Ed.) make a joint declaration of intent on the cessation of all hostilities in the border areas,” declared the Foreign Ministry of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in a Note published in June, 1978. Kampuchea was obviously trying to drag out the border war and obstruct the solution of outstanding problems in the relations between the two countries.