UN General Assembly
1967

126. The regrettable fact is that every effort to start discussions has been rejected with scorn by Hanoi. The régime there still believes that it can achieve its conquest of the South through continued violence. North Viet-Namese leaders maintain that they have the right to continue hostilities in the South while demanding freedom from hostilities in the North. They assert that the United Nations has no role to play in ending the conflict. They claim that agreement could be reached only on the basis of points which call for the unilateral withdrawal of forces supporting the Government of the Republic of Viet-Nam and the settling of the affairs of South Viet-Nam solely in accordance with the programme of the so-called National Front for Liberation, which is clearly unrepresentative of the great majority of the population of South Viet-Nam. A revealing statement by a North Viet-Namese major-general, Tran Do, in a document captured only this year shows that the North Viet-Namese "basic intention is to win militarily. We mean to end the war through military victories".