UN General Assembly
1986

Whatever they may say today, the Vietnamese have never given up this plan for the Indochina Federation with Hanoi as its capital. Thus, a country which had made such tremendous efforts and sacrifices to free itself from foreign domination and consequently won general esteem suddenly proved to be an expansionist, colonialist Power, shamelessly repudiating its most solemn commitments to a small neighboring country, with contempt for the letter and the spirit of the United Nations Charter and flouting the wise resolutions adopted by our Organization to put an end to the war in Cambodia. Thus, the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam revealed itself to be a nation that does not keep its word and is without honor. It lost at a stroke the sympathy of its friends, and was left with only the Soviet Union as protector and financial backer, that country having strategic and political interests in Viet Nam. Indeed, it is the various components of the Khmer resistance, making up the coalition of Democratic Kampuchea, that gain year by year wider support from the international community.