UN General Assembly
1966

75. Viet-Nam has been racked by violence and war for a quarter of a century. Together with its neighbours, Laos and Cambodia, Viet-Nam might have believed twelve years ago that its sufferings had been ended by the Geneva Agreements, whose aim was to establish throughout former Indo-China a permanent cease-fire and an international control system which would ensure the independence of the four States, provided that they remained neutral and that outside Powers did not intervene in their internal affairs. In Cambodia an enlightened and courageous Government has wisely rejected all foreign interference; hence it has not been touched by the war and has preserved its national unity. Viet-Nam and Laos have not been so fortunate — or perhaps so meritorious. As a result, in Laos, there is a virtual state of war; in South Viet- Nam, for years, there has been a very real war which for the last eighteen months has been extended to North Viet-Nam.