UN General Assembly
1966

85. We shall go even further. In order to create genuine and sincere conditions for a dialogue and, therefore, for negotiation, in other words for an unconditional return to the Geneva Conference, it is not enough merely to have military de-escalation, although that would contribute decisively towards disentangling the present situation: in reality what is needed is reciprocal de-escalation — military, in the first place, followed by political and ideological. Everything is in fact happening as though the extinction of Viet-Nam as a State matters less than the triumph of ideologies or the self-esteem of other States. Everything that goodwill can do must be done simultaneously to prevent the infamy of a nation’s disappearance in Viet-Nam and to avoid what for man kind as a whole is worst of all, the spectre of a third and perhaps final world conflagration.