CHINESE LETTER TO SC PRESIDENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-244-5-3-2
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: July 14, 2010
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: May 11, 1972
• Content Type: CABLE

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INSTRUCTIONS APPLY
ONLY ADD 43 (DRV FOREIGN MINISTRY STATEMENT)
XXX THREE U.S. WARSHIPS.
(TEXT) THE U.S. INTENSIFICATION OF ITS AIR AND NAVAL ATTACKS
ON MANY POPULATED AREAS IN THE HANOI CAPITAL, HAIPHONG FORT CITY
AND IN SEVERAL OTHER LOCALITIES, TOGETHER W I'' H ITS MINING PND
A.OCKADE OF NORTH VIETNAMESE PORTS, CONSTITUTES AN EXTREMELY SERIOUS
MILITARY ADVENTURE, AN EXTREMELY FLAGRANT ACT OF AGGRESSION
AND AN EXTREMELY BARBAROUS CRIME OF THE NIXON ADMINISTRATION.
THE U.S. AGGRESSORS HAVE VERY GROSSLY ENCROACHED ON THE DRV'S
SOVEREIGNTY AND SECURITY, TRAMPLED UNDERFOOT THE 1954 GENEVA
AGREEMENTS ON VIETNAM AND ALL ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL
LAW AND IMPUDENTLY CHALLENGED WORLD AND U.S. PUBLIC OPINION9
WHICH IS INDIGNANTLY DEMANDING THAT THE NIXON ADMINISTRATION
CEASE IMMEDIATELY ITS AIR AND NAVAL ATTACKS AND ALL OTHER ACTS OF
WAR AGAINST THE DR V'.
WITH THESE EXCEEDINGLY ADVENTUROUS AND INSANE STEPS OF
WAR ESCALATION, THE NIXON ADMINISTRATION IS TRYING TO SAVE HIS
VIETNAMIZATION OF THE WAR POLICY, ALREADY ON THE PATH OF COLLAPSE
IN SOUTH VIETNAM , AND TO FORCE THE VIETNAMESE PEOPLE TO ACCEPT
THE U.S. AGGRESSORS' IMPUDENT CONDITIONS. HOWEVER, THE MORE
.LLIGERENT THE U.S. IMPERIALISTS ARE, THEY DEEPER THEY WILL
SINK INTO A DESPERATE SITUATION AND THE HEAVIER THE DEFEATS THEY'WILL
TAKE UPON THEMSELVES. THEY WILL CERTAINLY MEET WITH TO fAL DEFEAT.
FEELING DEEP HATRED FOR THE CRUEL U. S. AGGRESSORS, THE
PEOPLE OF ALL VIETNAM, FIRMLY CONFIDENT. THAT THEIR JUST CAUSE
SHALL BE VICTORIOUS, WILL VALIANTLY RUSH FORWARD, DETERMINED
TO SMASH ALL- OF. THEIR NEW MILITARY ADVENTURES.
THE DRV GOVERNMENT STERNLY CONDEMNS THE AFOREMENTIONED RAPID
MILITARY ADVENTURES OF THE NIXON ADMINISTRATION AND RESOLUTELY
DEMANDS THAT IT CEASE IMMEDIATELY ITS SOM! INGS,
STRAFINGS AND ALL OTHER ACTS ENCROACHING ON THE DRV'S SOVEREIGNTY
AND SECURITY.
THE DRV GOVERNMENT CALLS ON THE GOVERNMENTS AND PEOPLES OF
FRATERNAL SOCIALIST COUNTRIES, PEACE- AND JUSTICE-LOVING COUNTRIES,
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, THE 'AMERICAN PEOPLE AND THE OTHER PEOPLES
OF THE WORLD TO ACT RESOLUTELY AND STAY IN GOOD TIME THE BLOODY HANDS
OF THE RABID U.S. WAR AGGRESSORS AND TO MORE POWERFULLY SUPPORT
THE VIETNAMESE PEOPLE'S RESISTANCE AGAINST U.S. AGGRESSION, FOR
NATIONAL SALVATION, UNTIL TOTAL VICTORY.
HANOI, 11 MAY 1972
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Si1BJ: VIETNAM: CHINESE LETTER TO SC PRESIDENT
FOLLOWING IS TEXT OF LETTER DATED MAY 11, 1972, FROM
FRC PERMREP HUANG HUA TO PRESIDENT OF SC AND TO SYG :
"YOUR EXCELLENCIES,
"ON MAY S, 1972, THE US REP TO THE UN WROTE TO THE
PRESIDENT OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL OF THE UN AND REQUESTED
THAT HIS LETTER AND THE ENCLOSED MAY 8 ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE
US PRESIDENT BE CIRCULATED AS A SC DOCUMENT. IN THIS
CONNECTION, I AM INSTRUCTED BY THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT TO
STATE THE FOLLOWING:
"THE US IS THE AGGRESSOR ON THE VIETNAM QUESTION. THE
NEW MEASURES IN VIETNAM AS ANNOUNCED RECENTLY BY THE US
PRESIDENT, INCLUDING THE MINING OF THE ENTRANCES TO THE PORTS
OF THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM, CONSTITUTE A FURTHER
EXPANSION OF THE WAR OF AGGRESSION AGAINST VIETNAM AND AN
OPEN VIOLATION OF THE FREEDOM OF INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION.
THIS IS A GRAVE PROVOCATION TO THE VIETNAMESE PEOPLE AS WELL
AS TO THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD. THESE ACTS OF AGGRESSION
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ON THE PART OF THE US ARE ABSOLUTELY IMPERMISSIBLE BY INTER-
NATIONAL LAW AND THE UN CHARTER. THE US HAS NO RIGHT WHATSOEVER
TO INVOKE THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE 5JAW THE UN CHARTER
CONCERNING THE EXERCISE OF THE. IGHT OF SELF-DEFENSE.
"IT MUST ALSO BE POINTED OUT THAT THE VIETNAM QUESTION.
HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE UNITED NATIONS IN THE FIRST
PLACE. THE UN HAS NEVER MEDDLED IN THE VIETNAM QUESTION SINCE
THE GENEVA CONFERENCE WAS HELD IN 1954.
"THE US REP TO THE UN HAS BY HIS LETTER TO THE SC ATTEMPTED
TO IMPOSE ON THE UN SUCH INSOLENT MEASURES AS THE FLAGRANT
BLOCKADE OF THE TERRITORIAL SEA AND PORTS OF VIETNAM IN
VIOLATION OF THE UN CHARTER AND THE PRINCIPLES GUIDING
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. THAT MUST BE CONDEMNED.
"IN VIEW OF THE ABOVE, THE US REPRESENTATIVE'S REQUEST
THAT HIS LETTER AND THE US PRESIDENT'S ANNOUNCEMENT BE
CIRCULATED AS A SECURITY COUNCIL DOCUMENT IS DEVOID OF ANY `
LEGAL BASIS. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE TO CHINA.
"I REQUEST THAT MY LETTER BE CIRCULATED AS A DOCUMENT
CF. THE SECURITY COUNCIL."
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