He did not want foreign interference in a bilateral affair.
"The Filipino view is that it cannot do anything by itself without foreign interference," he said.
"The forming of this new government is also based on foreign interference."
This change of policy was mainly due to the national resentment against foreign interference.
"Somebody directly chosen by the people of Egypt without any foreign interference."
"If reform is to have a chance to succeed, foreign interference must be prevented."
It must be left to local people to handle, or try to diminish, without foreign interference.
The position of the Russian government was that any foreign interference would only lead to increasing violence.
Perhaps they hold out now in the dream of foreign interference.
"It should be decided by Cambodians themselves without foreign interference."