UN General Assembly
1960

76. The situation in Viet-Nam is too well known to need recapitulation here. I wish, however, to invite attention to a crucial obligation that remains unfulfilled in regard to the question of reunifying the two Viet-Nams. As a result of the agreements signed at the 1954 Geneva Conference, it was agreed that elections were to be held within two years with the object of recreating a unified Government for Viet-Nam. When, however, the two co-Chairmen of the Geneva Conference, namely, the Foreign Ministers of the United Kingdom and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, met in 1956, the elections were postponed. They have not yet been held. These countries will no longer submit to political subjection in any form, and in the interests of world peace, we ask that elections should be held as soon as possible.