UN General Assembly
1966

107. Let us first of all mobilize our efforts to settle the problems besetting the international organization. Every day, every hour, let us campaign against the dreadful war in Viet-Nam. Let us co-ordinate our efforts to ensure that the aggression against North Viet-Nam ceases and that South Viet-Nam, led by the glorious army of the National Liberation Front, realizes its aspirations. Let us stop giving aid to the aggressor by justifying his attacks against North Viet-Nam or his presence in South Viet-Nam. Let those who state that the puppet regime of Saigon has the right to appeal for external assistance remember their own experience in the struggle against colonialism and realize that the soldiers of the National Liberation Front, who are fighting in the rice fields and the jungle, are waging the same struggle that they, like other African and Asian peoples, waged for their national independence. All this means that if we want U Thant to reconsider his decision or if we want a possible successor to be able worthily and honestly to accomplish his task, it is essential that those who bear the responsibility for the aggravation of the world situation and those who, by their passivity and indifference, perpetuate this crisis, should act immediately to create the conditions in which the Organization can operate soundly and effectively.