UN General Assembly
1953

65. Certain unofficial statements may have given the impression that the two foreign Powers which are encouraging and arming the Vietminh rebels are prepared to consider opening negotiations to put an end to this war. It remains for them to prove that these ambiguous hints are not purely propaganda and that the French Government’s often reiterated desire for peace finds its counterpart in an equally sincere desire in the opposite camp. Diplomatic negotiations? which might be opened, for instance, either during or after the political conference on Korea with the object of putting an end to the hostilities in Indo-China, would make it possible to envisage the restoration of more normal international relations in Asia.