UN General Assembly
1963

98. It will be somewhat more difficult to discern what the United Nations will really be able to do to bring the situation in South Viet-Nam closer to a quick and lasting solution. I submit that Asian countries with a firm determination could be helpful in elaborating a realistic plan of action, just as the summit conference of African States promoted universal understanding for the unsettled issues of African nations. In South Viet-Nam, just as in South Korea and in certain other parts of the Far East, the situation continues to be complicated and even dangerous because some Western quarters are under the illusion that the frontiers of one or another Western State run somewhere between North and South Viet-Nam or between North and South Korea. Those who cherish such illusions are tempted to undertake the defence of their own political ideas in those territories, even by force of arms.