Speaker. my remarks to the Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs yesterday when introducing the resolution did not take into account the agreement we now are happy and relieved to see announced. But the situation I describe remains the fact of lifethe fact of deathfor the people of Cambodia. On June 18. the House voted 336 to 0 backing our subcommittee resolution calling on the United Nations to convene a Geneva conference on the plight of the Indochinese refugees. With this vehicle. we were able to work closely with the Secretary General. Mr. Waldheim. and to participate at the Geneva Conference itself. to see that the humanitarian concerns of the Congress and the American people were fully represented. Now. we face an even worse huma tragedy. if that is possible. in Cambodii one moreover which threatens the stabil ity of all of Asia. For if the famine i Cambodia goes unchecked. not only wi the bulk of the population face deat by starvation. but the refugee situatio in Southeast Asia. particularly in Thai land. will reach catastrophic proportionAccordingly. today. I urge the Hous to support our resolution. so that th United Nations will know of our dee. and continuing commitment to the hu manitarian principles which have a along governed our policies toward th people of Cambodia. I would also like to submit for th RECORD a column from todays New Yorl Times by Anthony Lewis. which serve. as an excellent outline of the curren situation in Cambodia. and also in th4 region.
Keywords matched
refugee refugees