UN General Assembly
1966

34. The well-drilled chorus of martial singers seem to be bent upon pursuing to the end their war-path and have repeatedly spurned various suggestions to diverge from the escalating trend of war into a more peaceful approach. In appearance at least, they seem to be fortifying themselves with the belief that by rejecting every peaceful suggestion they are more likely to attain their war objectives. That is why, even though the call for peace and reason may have come from fellow Asians, they have contemptuously brushed aside the genuine yearnings for peace of Asian nations and have retorted with arrogant intransigence, which is in no way tempered by accompanying abuse of the lowest sort. Such a display of uncultured and un-Asian behaviour conceals not an inherent strength but rather a fundamental weakness which has come to the surface and, covered with a misnomer, is euphemistically called the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution". Up to now, while the defenders' side in Viet-Nam has shown its willingness and readiness to discuss unconditionally the ways and means to resolve peacefully the war in Viet-Nam, the aggressors' camp has consistently closed the door to every probe for negotiation and peaceable settlement.