UN General Assembly
1956

46. Let us also dispose of the criticism sometimes levelled at this common doctrine, which is too often presented as the canon of passive acceptance and enfeebling idealism. The history of the Laotian people shows that there is no incompatibility between the love of peace and the fundamental desire for independence and unity. For centuries we have vindicated our freedom. Now submerged, now resurgent, the Laotian nation, though imbued with the doctrine of peace, has never renounced freedom. Only yesterday we were at odds with a country to which we are linked by many ties and which remains one of our best friends. Today, as though to mark the achievement of our goal, it is as a fully sovereign State that the Kingdom of Laos takes its place in this Assembly, on an equal footing with all the other Member States in regard to its rights and obligations.