UN General Assembly
1966

Since the war is not producing and will not produce either victors or vanquished, since by its unforeseen consequences and its hidden connexions it poisons international relations and is preventing any progress, both in the negotiations for general and complete disarmament and the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and in the efforts to achieve understanding and cooperation, why not stop the massacre, the devastation and the chaos? The preconditions and the false pretexts only serve to prolong needlessly the indescribable sufferings of the peoples. Throughout the world voices are being raised with ever-increasing energy and insistence to demand peace by negotiation. Have not His Holiness the Pope, the Secretary-General and many Heads of State made appeals for peace that have impressed the world by their force and sincerity? The people of Laos, who are a direct victim of this raging war, appeal, through me, to the parties to the conflict to negotiate. The sooner they sit down at a conference table, the better.