ASIAN TOUR 1967 LAOS
JOINT AUSTRALIAN/ LAO COVIvUNIQUE ISSUED AT VIENTIANE 2ND APRIL, 1967
At the invitation of the Royal Government of Laos
the Right Honourable Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia,
in the course of his tour of Asia, paid an official visit to
Laos from 1st to 3rd April, 1967.
The Right Honourable the Prime Minister of Australia
and his party were the object of a warm welcome on the part of
the Lao Government and people.
The Australian Prime Minister, Mrs. Holt and those

ASIAN TOUR 1967 LAOS
SPEECH GIVEN BY TIE PRIME, MINISTER,-MR._ HAROLD HOLT
AT THE STATE DINNER IN VIENTIANE 1APIL, 197
Your Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen:
First, Mr. Prime Minister, may I thank you very
warmly for the welcome you have given to me and Mrs. Holt
and all those who have accompanied us here to Laos. We
found the warmth of welcome extended to us on our arrival
today confirmed by all the experience which has since come
to us during a memorable day in this capital city of your

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VISIT TO LAOS Q18RAg"
ARRIVAL PRESS STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER
OF AUSTRALIA, THE RT. HON. HAROLD HOLT, MP'.
I welcome the opportunity to make personal contact and
discuss mutual problems and interests with the Prime Minister, His
Highness Prince Souvanna Phouma, and the members of the Royal Lao
Government, and to see what I can in the time available of the Lao people
and their country. I am grateful for the invitation of the Royal Lao Government
to visit Laos which enables me to do these things.

ASIAN TOUR 1967 CAMBODIA
DINNER IN HONOUR OF PRINCE SIHANOUK GIVEN BY THE
PRIME MINISTER, MR. HAROLD HOLT, AT PHNOM PENH 31ST miC i_ 1967
FOLLOWING AR. THE MAIN POINTS FROM A SPEECH
MADE BY THE PRIIME MINISTER, 151. HAROLD HOLT:
We near the end of our visit to Cambodia. It is a
visit from which w-have learned much, a visit we have greatly
enjoyed. We are all better inlormed about Cambodia, its
country and its poople> its aspiration and its problems. I
hope we are all wiser also in our understanding of its policies.

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LIRAPi
ADDRESS BY THE ACTING PRII, MINISTER AND ,5INISTER FOR
TRADE AND IITDTJSTRY 17R. JOHN McEWEN, AT THE
AUSTRALIAL'N CEREMOINY FOR THE OPENING OF THE
SOUTH-EAST ASIA COTIUVIONWEALTH CABLE
( SEACOHI), SYDINEY, M,, ARCH,
1967
IndexPa ge
Begun in 1958
Close to Asia
Aid to Others
World Co-operation
New Experience

FOR PRESS P. M. No. 43/ 1967
QUEENSLAND FLOODS
Statement by the Acting Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon.
John McEwen
Commenting today on the floods in North Queensland, the
Acting Prime Minister said that as soon as news of the disaster was received,
the Government arranged for Commonwealth officials to keep in close touch
with the Premier's Department in Queensland so that it could be kept fully
informed of developments. At the same time, requests for assistance were
received by the Services which did all they aould to assist those affected

ASIAN TOUR 1967 CAMBODIA ARo,
TOAST PROPOSED BY PRINCE NORODOM SIHANOUJK
AT GALA DINNER FOR THE PRIME MINISTER,
MR. HAROLD HOLT, AT PHNOM PENH. 29th March, 1967.
It is with great pleasure that I welcome this evening the
eminent Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Right
Honourable Mr. Harold Holt and those distinguished personages who
accompany him. May I assure them of the warmth of the welcome that
awaits them, and express the hope that they, for their part, will enjoy
their brief stay amongst us.

ASIAT TOUR 1967. C' 1 TBODIA
Speech by the Prime Minister, Mir. Harold Holt at
Gala Dinner at Phnom Penh 29th March, 1967.
Over recent years there has oeen a growing awareness
in Australia of our increasing involvement in developments
occurring in South East Asia and the Pacific. While some of
these developments have related to matters of national integrity
and security, there have emerged also positive and mutually
beneficial developments in the fields of trade and commerce.
This is, perhaps most strikingly demonstrated in the

ASIAN TOUR 1967 VISIT TO CAMBODIA
ARRIVAL PRESS STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER
OF AUSTRALIA, THE RT. HON. HAROLD HOLT MP.
It is my privilege to be the first Australian Prime Minister
to visit Cambodia. I do this in response to the gracious invitation of your
eminent Head of State, Prince Norodom Sihanouk. That invitation was
extended to me through the intermediary of His Excellency Mr. Son Sann
during his visit to Australia in February. I have taken the first opportunity
open to me to respond to such a welcome invitation.

ASIAN TOUR 1967 SINGAPORE
DEPARTURE PRESS CONFERENCE 29TH MARCH, 1967
PRIME MINISTER: I don't know that there is anything particularly that I wanted to
add to what I said yesterday. I did mention yesterday, I think,
that these were four countries I had not previously visited. All
of them have a significance of a special sort for Australia.
Cambodia is a country with which we have a special relationship
in that, although we respect the neutrality and non-alignment of
Cambodia we have been able to maintain good relations to a point