The World - News from Feb. 1, 1985
Prince Norodom Sihanouk rejected an offer of talks with the Hanoi-backed government in Cambodia because it would split his rebel coalition. Sihanouk, former Cambodian head of state, spoke in Bangkok after he and coalition partner Son Sann met with U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, who had just returned from Vietnam. Sihanouk said Hanoi’s offer excluding one of his coalition partners, the Khmer Rouge, would split the coalition and rob it of the support of China, which backs the Khmer Rouge.
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