Following the Khmer Rouge conquest of power and the declaration of the Democratic Kampuchea Yugoslavia was one of only a couple of countries in the world which maintained some formal bilateral relations with the new regime. In early 1978 Yugoslav reporters of Tanjug, Vjesnik and Politika were the first from Europe to be allowed to tour the country for two weeks. During the Cambodian–Vietnamese War Belgrade believed that despite internal situation in Cambodia foreign interference was unjustified and could have led to wider Sino-Soviet conflict.