UN General Assembly
1965

130. First of all, as regards the situation in Viet-Nam, it does not fall within the competence of the United Nations. But it shocks the conscience of millions of people throughout the world. It gives rise to serious concern in my own country. 131. The Viet-Namese people are subjected to brutal aggression. Their sovereign right to choose the proper road for development and the way of life which suits them best is being infringed in defiance of the 1954 Geneva Agreements. The United States is interfering in the internal affairs of the Viet-Namese nation; it wants to decide Viet-Nam's fate. Moreover, it destroys all that the Viet-Namese people have built and achieved through strenuous ei~ forts and hard work after centuries of foreign domination and colonial exploitation. 132. Is it not hypocrisy to declare readiness to negotiate, while towns and villages are burnt, women and children are killed and mutilated, and bombs are dropped incessantly to enforce submission to a foreign dictate?