PRC GOVERNMENT STATEMENT ON VIETNAM NEGOTIATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-247-5-15-6
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: May 27, 2010
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: October 30, 1972
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/05/27: LOC-HAK-247-5-15-6
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FRC GOVERNMENT STATEMENT ON VIETNAM NFCOTIATIONS
13301439 PEKING NCNA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE IN ENGLISH 14?9 GMT
30 0 CT 72 1
(TEXT) PEKING, OCTOBER 31i, 1972 (HSINHUA)--
STATEMENT OF THE GOVERNMENT OF
THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC Or CHINA
OCTOBER 30, 1972
ON OCTOBER 2G, 1972 THE GOVE'RNTM!ENT OF THE DEMOCRATIC
1 PUBLIC OF VIETNAM ISSUED THE "STATEMENT ON THE PRESENT
FATE OF THE NEGOTIATIONS RELATING TO THE VIETNAM PROBLEM."
THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT ANO PEOPLE RESOLUTELY SUPPORT THE, SOLE"1PI
AND JUST POSITION TAKEN IN THAT STATEMENT.
DURING THE PAST FOUR YEARS AND MORE, IN ORDER TO BRING ABOUT
A PEACEF'!.!L SOLUTION OF THE VIETNAM! PRO3LF'~I, THE GOVERNMENT Or
THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM AND THE PROVISIONAL REVOL'1TIONARY
(TtVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH VIETNAM HAVE CONSISTENTLY
TAKEN A SERIOUS ANJD EAR!,IEST 4TTIT1.JD'~ IN THE PARIS TADS AND
RJT FORWARD MANY FAIR AND REASONABLE' PROPOSALS. Ptf"1THER YORE,
FOR PRO!1OTTNJ; Pt'.`'"DRESS IN THE TALKS, THEY HAVE OF LATE MADE
TREMIENDO!.IS EFF0- . 3, AND AGREEN?IEWNT HAS BEEN REACHED tJIT.1 THE
it. so GOVER14'11ENT ON THE FORt11!LATTONJ OF THE "ACRE M'E!NT OF ENDING
THE WAR AND RESTOR I P~ PEA T'F TAT VT ETN4r-1" AND THE SCHEDULE
,OR ITS SIGNIN3, HAS SEEM VT)'E'I_) THR"OtUGH CONJSIILTATION. 40107,VC-R,
THE U.S. GOVER,,,S'1ENT HAS REPEATEDLY CHANGED ITS PROPOSITI0Uo
(I?EATED OFFSHOOT ISSUES, GONE BACH ON ITS OWN WORD AND LAID
W-W OBSTACLES TO PUT OFF THE 9113141,N"' OF THE AGREEMENT ON THE
P?F-TEXT TH4T IT HAS ENCOUNTERED DI;'FIC!JLTTES INT SAIGON. THE
WHOLE WORLD KN101;1r THAT THE N,UYEN 11AN THIEU CLIO11E HAS BEEN
FOSTERED BY THE UNITED STATES SINGLE-;?IAN?OE!D AND WHAT KIND 07
REL4TIONSHIP THERE I S BETWEEN) I T AND THE UNITED STATES. IT
MOOLD NOT RE DIFFICULT TO 1RE'~OVF THESE OBSTACLES TV THE !tNTTEr)
`TOTES TRULY WTS)'NFS TO 901.111: THE PRORLFn1. THE PEOPLE Or THE'
VORLD CANNOT BUT ASK W11viT11'1117 THE U. S. DOVERNNIrRT GENUTtJt