UN General Assembly
1967

16. Turning to Viet-Nam, I must admit, that, as my Swedish colleague said a little while ago [1563rd meeting], it is hard to imagine that the United Nations should take no interest in a problem which so closely concerns world security. Here again, the search for a solution is greatly complicated by exclusions and intransigent declarations made by both sides. Some States claim that the United Nations is not competent to deal with the matter. These same States frustrate attempts to convene the Geneva Conference, which laid down the legal foundations for the recognition of the independence of the States of what once was Indo-China.