UN General Assembly
1966

109. What is essential in the immediate future is that we should combine our efforts towards improving international relations and restoring peace in the world, particularly in that area where peace is suffering the worst violation, Viet-Nam. For Viet-Nam is still a theatre of increasingly murderous operations. The conflict has been raging there for a long time, demanding vast sacrifices and sowing desolation in a country which has not known peace for a quarter of a century. Not only is there a danger that this situation could end in a major conflagration, with unforeseeable consequences: it is also having the most disastrous effect on the international situation. In view of the policy of interference practised by North Viet-Nam, encouraged and supported by the avowed expansionist policy of the People's Republic of China, we cannot honestly reproach South Viet-Nam for calling upon its friends to help maintain its integrity. It is in the interest of peace that a solution which respects the legitimate aspirations of the Viet-Nam people in its entirety be found in negotiation, not in war.