UN General Assembly
1965

9. Can we forget, Mr. President, the tragedies of which you were reminding us when, in your inaugural speech you pointed out that, as we gathered here to open our session, "guns are booming in Asia. Houses are falling. Man are dying. More and more families are falling prey to despair" [1332nd meeting, para. 17]. In Viet-Nam, a conflict has been raging now for a considerable time, causing great misery to many a home. My country shares the distress of all peace-loving nations at this state of affairs. We do not consider that a just solution to the conflict can be produced by military means. We believe in the peaceful solution of conflicts. We think that a ceasefire should be arranged as soon as possible, followed by a conference at which the Viet-Namese people will be enabled to work out their own future. The fact that this dangerous conflict, with its grave possibilities for world peace, continues without the Security Council — our principal organ for the maintenance of peace — being able even to discuss it, is a sad commentary on the unhealthy state of our Organization.