UN General Assembly
1967

104. If the phenomena which led to the Middle East crisis are not entirely to be found in Viet-Nam, we certainly find all the other factors there. For the struggle waged by the Viet-Namese people for more than twenty years is the result of the denial of the right of the Viet-Namese nation to consolidate its independence on the basis of the principles to which a tribute was paid by electing you, Sir, to the Presidency. What do the people of North and South Viet-Nam want but to develop, in a necessarily unitary framework, a national sovereignly without partitioning, and to build up a democratic, peaceful society without interference of any kind? 105. Admittedly, for reasons peculiar to the Viet-Namese conflict, the United Nations could not in any event claim the right to intervene in this vexatious problem through formal channels.