UN General Assembly
1966

One might be tempted today to seek the causes for this grave breach of the peace in South-East Asia, this direct threat to world peace embodied in the semi-colonial war now ravaging Viet-Nam and threatening the other parts of former French Indo-China, that country which was so badly decolonized, but which, nevertheless, set in motion the process of the downfall of the French colonial empire. One might also be tempted to apportion the blame among the parties to this conflict. The conflict in Viet-Nam could, indeed, have remained within the limits of a civil war engaging the political factions of a country seeking its stability and its own road to development in social justice, had it not been for the direct intervention of the United States of America on the side of one of these factions.