VNA ENGLISH TEXT OF DRV GOVERNMENT STATEMENT ON NEGOTIATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-252-10-5-5
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: June 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: October 26, 1972
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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VNA ENGLISH TEXT OF DRV GOVERNMENT STATEMENT ON NEGOTIATIONS
HANOI VNA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE IN ENGLISH 0811 GMT 26
OCT 72
(TEXT) HANOI VNA OCTOBER 26--FOLLOWING IS THE F1.1LL TEXT OT THE
STATEMENT ISSUED HERE TODAY BY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DEMOCRATIC
FEPUBLTC OF VIETNAM ON THE PRESENT STATE OF THE NEGOTIATIONS
RELATING TO THE VIETNAM PROBLEM:
FOLLOWING YEARS OF A GLORIOUS RESISTANCE WAR OF OUR ARMED
FORCES AND PEOPLE IN BOTH ZONES, THE UNITED STATES HAD TO STOP
IN OCTOBER 1968 THE BOMBARDMENTS AGAINST THE DEMOCRATIC REPt!FJLIC
OF VIETNAM AND ACCEPT THE HOLDING OF A FOUR-PARTY CONFERENCE ON
VIETNAM IN PARIS. THAT SITUATION OPENED UP PROSPECTS FOR RESTORING
PEACE IN VIETNAM.
THE NIXON ADMINTSTRATION CHOSE, HOWEVER, TO EMBARK ON THE
PATH OF "VIETNAMIZATION 07 THE WAR", AND NEGOTIATION FROM A
POSITION OF STRENGTH. AS 4 RESULT, THE U.S. WAR OF AGGRESSION
IN VIETNAM DRAGGED ON, WAS INTENSIFIED AND EXPANDED, AND THE
VIETNAM PEACE NEGOTIATION COULD NOT MAKE ANY PROGRESS.
OVER THE PAST FOUR YEARS,' THE VALIANT AND UNDAUNTED VIETNAMESE
PEOPLE HAVE STEPPED UP THEIR JUST STR11GGL= ON THE M TLTTAPY,
POLITICAL AND DIT LOMATIC FRONTS, AND NAVE RECORDED f1NPRECEDENTED
VICTORIES, ESPECIALLY SINCE SPRING 1972, THUS INFLICTING A VERY
IMPORTANT SETBACK ON THE "VI ETNAMIZATION" POLICY.
AT THE SAME TIME, THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
OF VIETNAM HAS CONSTANTLY SHOWN ITS SERIOUS ATTITUDE AND GOODWILL
IN THE SEARCH FOR A PEACEFUL SOLUTION TO THE VIETNAM PROBLEM ON
A BASIS GUARANTEEING, THE VIETNAMESE PEOPLE'S FUNDAMENTAL NATIONAL
RIGHTS AND THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE PEOPLE'S RIGH{T TO SELF'-DETERMINATION.
IN F!JLL AGREEMENT WITH THE PROVISIONAL REVOL!tTIONARY GOVERNNM!NT
OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH VIETNAM, THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DEMOCRATIC
REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM HAS HELD PRIVATE MEETINGS WITH THE U.S.
GOVERNMENT WITH A VIEW TO A PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT OF THE VIETNAM
PROBLEM. BUT TILL SEPTEMBER 1972, THE NEGOTIATIONS ON THE VIETNAM
FROBLEM HAD REMAINED WITHOUT RESULT.
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FRIV? tt E MEETING ON OCTOBER S, 1972, THE DRV SIDE TOOX A NEW,
EKTREMELY IMPORTANT INITIATIVES IT PTIT FORWARD A.,RA"T "AGREEMENT
ON ENDING THE WAR AND RESTORING PEACE IN VIETNAM," AND PROPOSED
THAT THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM,
WITH THE CONCUIRRENCE OF THE PROVISIONAL REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT
OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH VIETNAM, AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED
FATES OF AMERICA, WITH THE CONCURRENCE OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE
REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM, IMMEDIATELY AGREED UPON AN SIGNED THIS
AGREEMENT TO RAPIDLY RESTORE PEACE IN VIETNAM. LIN THAT DRAFT
!'GREEMENT, THE DRV SIDE PROPOSED A CESS4TION OF THE WAR THROUGHOUT
VIETNAM, A CEASE-FIRE IN SO11TH VIETNAM, AN EN'S TO ALL U.S.
MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN VIETNAM, A TOTAL WITHDRAWAL FROM SOUTH
VIETNAM OF TROOPS OF THE UNITED STATES AND THOSE OF THE FOREIGN
M11NTRIES ALLIED WITH THE UNITED STATES AND WITH THE REPURLtC
OF VIETNAM, AND THE RETI-1RN OF ALL CAPT11RED AND DETAINED PERSONNEL
OF THE PARTIES. FROM THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE .CEASE.-FIRE ..TO. THE`
FORMED AFTER FREE AND DEMOCRPTIC
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F!I!VCTIOt~5 ]THESE TWO ADMINISTRATIONSSHAL IMMEDI
ATELY. a?NSULT4TI(NS WITH A VIEW TO THE EXERCISE OF THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE
PEOPLES RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMI NAT CON, ACHIEVING NATION CONCORD,
ENSURING THE DEMOCRATIC LIBERTIES OF THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE PEOPLE,
AND FORMING AN ADMINISTRATION OF NATIONAL CONCORD WHICH SHALL HAVE
THE TASK OF PROMOTING THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE PARTIES` IMPLEMENTATION
OF THE SIGNED AGREEMENTS AND ORGANIZING GENERAL ELECTIONS IN SOUTH
VIETNAM. THE TWO SOUTH VIETNAMESE PARTIES SHALL SETTLE TOGETHER
THE INTERNAL MATTERS OF SOUTH VIETNAM WITHIN TF;(xEE MONTHS AFTER
THE CEASE-FIRE COMES INTO EFFECT.CTMfJS THE VIETNAM PROBLEM WILL
SETTLED I N TWO STAGES I N ACCORDANCE 411"f`N ~t`HN E FSSED
A CESSATION OFT THE-FIRST STAGE WILL: TROVID)E
E WAR I N VIETNAM, A CEASE-FIRE 114 SOUTH VIETNAM,
A CEASSATION OF THE U.S. MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN SOUTH VIETNAM
AND AN AGREEMENT ON THE PRINCIPLES FOR THE EXERCISE OF'THE SOUTH
VIETNAMESE PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION; IN THE SECOND
Sr"At,E, THE TWO SOUTH VIETNAMESE PARTIES WILL SETTLE TOGETHER THE
INTERNAL MATTERS OF SO1.1TH VIETNAM.JTHE DRV SIDE' PROPOSED THAT
THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM AND THE UNITED STATES SI13N
THIS AGREEMENT BY MID-OCTOBER, 1972.
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