UN General Assembly
1966

7. Proposals for negotiations have been submitted from this rostrum by the United States. While they were deemed unacceptable by others, the stake involved in this war is so great that we must not be discouraged, and the United States should make a solemn gesture by halting its bombings and air attacks. At the same time, we should encourage the convening of the Geneva Conference with a view to the initiation of negotiations for a return to the 1952 and 1954 agreements, and induce the belligerents to agree to a supervised suspension of hostilities until the Conference has come to a reasonable conclusion. It is the duty of each of us, according to our relations with the United States, the People's Republic of China, North Viet-Nam, South Viet-Nam and the Viet-Cong, to persuade these parties to agree to negotiation — within the context of the Geneva Conference and with no preconditions — as the only means to save the peace,