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 1987 Chronology Of Cambodian History

• Jan. 12, 1987 CGDK President Prince Sihanouk met with Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu in Bucharest where Prince Sihanouk made a week-long visit.
• Jan. 22, 1987 Heng Samrin told a Cuban journalist that the PRK ready to establish a demilitarized zone along the Thai-Kampuchean border under international supervision and control but Thailand consistently had rejected the idea.
• Jan. 28, 1987 An East German delegation arrived in Phnom Penh for an official visit; the delegation signed a number of documents with the PRK. Soviet Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting delegation concluded a 9-days visit with signing of a cooperation protocol with its PRK counterpart in Phnom Penh.
• Jan. 30, 1987 ASEAN protested the invitation of PRK to participate in a UNESCO congress by the UNESCO Commission for Geologic Map of the World due to be held Feb. 9-13 in Paris.  ASEAN representatives to UNESCO met with the CGMW Sec. Gen., who apologized for the error and said CGMW would not invite the PRK to the coming or future meeting.
• Feb. 3, 1987 USSR embassy in Beijing released a statement rejecting Prince Sihanouk’s call for direct talks between CGDK, USSR and Vietnam on Kampuchea.  The statement said proposed talks should be put to the PRK government in Phnom Penh.
• Feb. 8, 1987 The top political commissars of the three Indochinese armies - PAVN’s Lt. Gen. Nguyen Quyet, LPA’s Lt. Gen. Osaken and KPRAF’s El Vansarat - concluded a 3-days meeting in Phnom Penh on the Party’s role in the military.
• Feb. 16, 1987 PRK Ministry of Education formally opened a branch of the Moscow-based Pushkin Russian Language Institute at the PRK-USSR Friendship Institute of Technology in Phnom Penh.
• Feb. 18, 1987 PRK and Poland signed a 1987 trade agreement in Phnom Penh, in which Kampuchea was to export rubber, timber, furniture, soybeans, sesame and other farm products in exchange for anti-rust paint, soldering-rods, sewing machines, boat engines, raw materials for medicine and other consumer goods.
• Feb. 24, 1987 Four Thai fishing boats and 80 crewmembers were seized by PRK soldiers near Chao Island off Kampuchean coast.
• March 14, 1987 Indonesian FM Mokhtar Kusumaatmaja said ASEAN had received no new official peace initiatives from Vietnam during the past few months.  He said the sticking point in solving the Kampuchea conflict remain getting Vietnam to agree to discuss peace with all elements of the CGDK.
• March 17, 1987 PRK and USSR signed in Phnom Penh a protocol on the dispatching of Soviet specialists and materials to Kampuchea.  The specialists would assist Kampuchea in geological research and in improving various branches of the industry.
• March 27, 1987 Son Sann and Gen Sak Sutsakhan, in a show of unity, paid a visit to a border refugee camp together, and issued a statement saying their year-long rift was now over.
• April 3, 1987 PRK protested the agreement signed in Bangkok on March 25 between CGDK, ASEAN nations, Japan and China to establish a coordinating committee to develop Kampuchea offshore oil resources.
• April 6, 1987 PRK National Assembly issued a statement endorsing Syria’s protest of alleged atrocities committed by Israel in the Golan Heights.
• April 8, 1987 The third Indochinese Civil Aviation Conference concluded its 3-days session in Phnom Penh.
• April 12, 1987 Son Sann criticized Vietnam for violating human rights, destroying Buddhism and national tradition of Kampuchea.
• April 19, 1987 PRK Foreign Trade Bank issued a communiqué authorizing overseas Cambodian and foreigners to transfer money to their relatives and friends in Cambodia.
• April 24, 1987 Prince Ranariddh claimed he received a letter from PRK PM Hun Sen proposing direct talks with him anywhere; however, the prince said he cannot agree to such talk because the problem was not just Cambodians by between Cambodia and Vietnam.
• April 25, 1987 A delegation of the Cuban Commission for Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation arrived in Phnom Penh for the third session with its Kampuchean counterpart.  An agreement on cooperation for 1987-88 was signed, under which Cuba would send more technical experts and doctors to Kampuchea and train Kampuchean students.
• May 5, 1987 A KPNLF communiqué conceded for the first time that the rebel organization had only 8004 armed combatants in contrast to a previous statement claiming more than 20,000 soldiers.
• May 7, 1987 Prince Sihanouk announced he was taking a leave of absence for one year in reaction to an April 26 Khmer Rouge attack on ANS forces, killing 2 and wounding 12 others, and he would extend it for another year or indefinitely if the Khmer Rouge continue to violate human rights in their camps as reported by international human rights groups.
• May 12, 1987 A delegation of Vietnam Ministry of Supply departed Kampuchea after a 5-days visit.  An agreement was signed in which Vietnam would help Kampuchea in transporting gasoline and expanding a fuel station at Russei Keo capable of holding 6,500 cubic meters of fuel.
• May 13, 1987 CGDK PM Son Sann concluded his 3-days visit to Site 2 camp.  He expressed support for Indonesian proposal of unofficial meeting of all four Kampuchean factions by said Vietnam must talk with the CGDK first.
• June 3, 1987 Amnesty International released a report detailing brutal and systematic torture of political prisoners in PRK prisons and human rights abuses in camps controlled by the Khmer Rouge and KPNLF.
• June 12, 1987 PRK and USSR signed an agreement on economic cooperation, under which the USSR would assist Kampuchea in establishing three maintenance stations for tractors and other agricultural machines and provide nine mobile repair shops.  The agreement also calls for 45 Kampucheans to be sent to the USSR for professional and technical training over a three-months period.
• July 1, 1987 PRK PM Hun Sen met with USSR FM Eduard Shevardnadze in Moscow.  Both discussed Soviet-Kampuchea relations and related issues.
• July 3, 1987 Indian FM Natwar Singh arrived in Phnom Penh for a 4-days and met with his PRK counterpart Kong Korm and President Heng Samrin, who told Indian correspondent that India could play a crucial role in a Kampuchea settlement.
• July 19, 1987 U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, in Singapore, said the selection of Pham Hung as Vietnam PM and Vo Chi Cong as president seemed to snuff out hope for Hanoi flexibility in solving Cambodian problem and added that U.S. and ASEAN would continue the strategy of supporting Cambodian non-communist resistance forces and isolating Vietnam economically and diplomatically.
• July 28, 1987 PRK President Heng Samrin met with Soviet leader Michail Gorbachev in Moscow.  Both discussed Soviet-Kampuchean relations and related issues.
• Aug. 27, 1987 PRK announced a Declaration of National Reconciliation Policy, which calling for an independent, non-aligned, prosperous Kampuchea without the threat of Pol Pot genocide.  It was seen an overture to the resistance forces.
• Aug. 29, 1987 CGDK leaders, Prince Sihanouk, Son Sann and Khieu Samphan, arrived in Beijing for a 5-days visit.
• Oct. 8, 1987 PRK issued a “Declaration on a Political Solution to the Kampuchean Problem”, calling for: (1) a PRK-Sihanouk meeting; (2) complete withdrawal of Vietnamese troops from Kampuchea simultaneously with the halt of aid and sanctuary for the resistance forces; (3) general election with foreign observers in order to establish a coalition government; (4) negotiations with Thailand to establish a secure and peaceful border between the two country; and (5) an international conference to guarantee the agreement reached. [Statement in Cambodian and English]
• Oct. 14, 1987 The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution A/RES/42/3 calling for the immediate withdrawal of all foreign troops from Cambodia.
• Oct. 21, 1987 PRK government devalued the Riel against the U.S. dollar from R30-$1 to R100-$1.
• Oct. 28, 1987 PRK President Heng Samrin, PM Hun Sen and other officials departed Phnom Penh for Moscow to attend the 70th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
• Nov. 17, 1987 PRK and USSR signed a 1988 trade and payment agreement.
• Nov. 28, 1987 Three PRK cabinet ministers were elevated to the rank of vice premier: Say Chhum of Agriculture, Tea Banh of Communication, Transportation and Posts, Kong Sam Ol - minister attached to the Council of Ministers.
• Dec. 4, 1987 Prince Sihanouk and PRK PM Hun Sen ended a three-days of talks in Fere-En-Tardenois, France, and issued a joint communiqué stating that the Kampuchean problem required a political not military solution, the problem must be solved by the Kampucheans through negotiations, international conference to guarantee agreement reached, and the two sides would met again in January 1988.
• Dec. 5, 1987 The first national congress of Kampuchean Journalists Associations concluded a 3-days session in Phnom Penh.  The KJA elected Som Kimsuor (editor of Pracheachon) as its president, Khieu Kanharit (editor of Kampuchea) and Em Sam An (director of SPK) as vice-presidents.  It also selected a 17-person executive committee.
• Dec. 24, 1987 The People’s National Bank of Kampuchea put into circulation a new five and ten Riel bank notes, in an effort to deal with an increasingly serious problem of counterfeit currency circulating in the country.
• Dec. 30, 1987 PRK FM Kong Korm was relieved of his post and appointed Minister for Social Development and Culture.  PM Hun Sen assumed the vacated post.
• Dec. 31, 1987 PRK and Afghanistan signed a treaty of friendship and cooperation in Phnom Penh.