Although ASEAN was active as a diplomatic community in isolating Vietnam and in maintaining international support for the Cambodian resistance, it was not critical to determining the outcome of the conflict. Indonesia did join with France as co-chair of an international conference on Cambodia which met first in July 1989 in Paris with the other ASEAN countries participating. But the arrangements for power sharing within Cambodia proved elusive at that stage. That problem could only be addressed after the contest between China and Vietnam had been settled in favour of the former. A final agreement on power sharing arrangement was not reached be for the end of the Cold War