UN General Assembly
1966

33. Their hopes are not completely without support. They have been kept alive and in fact fuelled by the provision of the necessary wherewithal from their allies to wage war. Economic aid as well as military equipment has flowed from external sources into North Viet-Nam, which enables that country to carry on to this day its war of aggression. For countries siding with the aggressors, the war in Viet-Nam must be won for their friends and partners, as victory would further extend their ideological and political empire. Although not all of them' are prepared to share the cost and bear proportionate sacrifices, they seem to be willing to show their solidarity to the extent of their immediate national interests and practical capability. At least on the propaganda side, they are willing to blare in unison that the war in Viet-Nam is a holy war of national liberation, which in effect serves to cover the stark fact that the people of South Viet-Nam are being subjected to a war of conquest and colonial expansion from across the northern border.