NHAN DAN ON U.S. RESPONSIBILITY IN UPCOMING THO-KISSINGER TALKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-249-10-10-3
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2010
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: December 14, 1973
• Content Type: CABLE

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UNCLAS DW BBC PARIS RUAO
FOR U.S. VIETNAM MISSION
FOR HAROLD SAUNDERS WITH SECRETARY'S PARTY
NHAN DAN ON U.S. RESPONSIBILITY IN UPCOMING THO-KISSINGER TALKS
B140720 FIRST OF,TWO TAXES--NHAN DAN ON U.S. RESPONSIBILITY
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HANOI VNA IN ENGLISH 0659 GMT
( (TEXT)) HANOI VNA DECEMBER 14--NHAN DAN, I N A COMMENTARY I N
CONNECTION WITH THE FORTHCOMING MEETING BETWEEN SPECIAL ADVISOR
LE DUC THO OF THE DRV AND DR. HENRY KISSINGER, SAID "RESPONSIBILITY
RESTS ENTIRELY WITH THEUNITED STATES."
FOR THE BACKGROUND OF THE MEETING, THE PAPER SAID:
THE UNITED STATES, FOR 18 REARS, CONDUCTED AN EXTREMELY
SAVAGE WAR OF AGGRESSION AGAINST THE VIETNAMESE PEOPLE. BUT,
HEAVILY DEFEATED, IT HAD TO SIGN THE PARIS AGREEMENT ON
VIETNAM.
THE VICTORY THE VIETNAMESE PEOPLE WON IN THEIR STRUGGLE
AGAINST U.S. AGGRESSION AND FOR NATIONAL SALVATION, WHICH CAME
TO AN END WITH THE CONCLUSION OF THE PARIS AGREEMENT, IS A VERY
GREAT, HISTORIC VICTORY FOR THE VIETNAMESE NATION, AND ALSO A
VERY IMPORTANT VICTORY FOR THE PEACE-AND JUSTICE-LOVING PEOPLE
ALL OVER THE WORLD.
"THE UNITED STATES HAS COMMITTED TO RESPECT THE FUNDAMENTAL
NATIONAL RIGHTS OF THE VIETNAMESE PEOPLE AND THE RIGHT OF THE
PEOPLE OF SOUTH VIETNAM TO SELF-DETERMINATION. IT HAS HAD TO
WITHDRAW ITS TROOPS, HAS, DECLARED TO TERMINATE ITS MILITARY
INVOLVEMENT AND ITS INTERFERENCE IN THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF T'NCI,AS3TFIED
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,SOUTH VIETNAM.
FOR ALL THESE COMMITMENTS, HOWVER, THE UNITED STATES HAS
VERY BRUTALLY VIOLATED THE KEY PROVISIONS OF THE AGREEMENT.
IT HAS LEFT BEHIND OR FRESHLY SENT IN TENS OF THOUSANDS OF
MILITARY PERSONNEL DISGUISED AS CIVILIANS WHILE GIVING MORE
tDNEY, WEAPONS AND WAR MEANS TO THE SAIGON ADMINISTRATION TO
HELP THE LATTER WRECK THE CEASEFIRE AND UNDERMINE PEACE, THUS
COMMITTING INNUMERABLE ADDITIONAL CRIMES AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF
SOUTH VIETNAM.
REGARDING NORTH VIETNAM, THE UNITED STATES, BY MEANS OF
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VIETNAM. IT IS ALSO SEEKING TO SHIRIK THE OBLIBATION TO CONTRIBUTE
TOWARD THE HEALING OF THE WAR WOUNDS AND THE POST-WAR
RBCONSTRBBNEMOCRATICHLEPUBLIC ODUVIETNAM.
BECAUSE OF THE VIOLATION BY THE UNITED STATES AND THE
SAIGON ADMINISTRATION OF THE PARIS AGREEMENT, ARMED CONFLICTS
HAVE NOT CEASED AND GENUINE PEACE HAS NOT BEEN RESTORED IN
SOUTH VIETNAM. HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF POLITICAL PRISONERS
HAVE NOT YET BEEN RELEASED, AND ARE SUBJECTED TO MALTREATMENT.
IN SAIGON-CONTROLLED AREAS, ALL DEMOCRATIC LIBERTIES ARE THROTTLED,
AND REPRESSION, TERROR, PLUNDER AND MURDER ARE TAKING PLACE DAY
IN DAY OUT. THE SITUATION IS VERY TENSE, AND THE MISERY
OF THE PEOLPLE IS INDESCRIBABLE. THE ROOT CAUSE OF ALL THIS
RESIDES IN THE FACT THAT THE UNITED STATES, DESPITE ITS DEFEAT
AND ALTHOUGH IT HAS HAD TO PULL ITS TROOPS OUT OF SOUTH VIETNAM,
IS DOING EVERYTHING TO MAINTAIN THE SAIGON ADMINISTRATION AS
AN INSTRUMENT TO IMPOSE NEO-COLONIALISM ON SOUTH VIETNAM AND
PERPETUATE THE PARTITION OF VIETNAM.
THIS SITUATION HAS BEEN BROUGHT ABOUT BY TH UNITED STATES
ITSELF. NO SLANDER BY IT OR BY THE SAIGON ADMINISTRATION UNCLASSIFIED
CAN EVER COVER UP THE TRUTH. 140659 MORE BURTON.SH 14/0743Z DEC
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HANOI VNA ENGLISH 140659 XXX UP THE TRUTH.
((TEXT) THE'PAPER CONTINUED: IT IS THE STAND OF THE DRV
GOVERNMENT AND THE RSV PROVISIONAL REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT TO
THROUGHLY RESPECT AND STRICTLY ABIDE BY THE PARIS AGREEMENT AND THE
JOINT COMMUNIQUE OF JUNE 13, 1973, WHILE FIRMLY DEMANDING THAT THE
UNITED STATES AND THE SAIGON ADMINISTRATION DO LIKEWISE.
TO THE WAR ACTS OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE SAIGON
ADMINISTRATION, THE ARMED FORCES AND PEOPLE OF SOUTH VIETNAM
HAVE GIVEN FITTING RIPOSTES, THWARTING THE DESIGN OF
THE UNITED STATES AND THS SAIGON ADMINISTRATION TO BLUR THE
REALITY OF TWO ADMINISTRATIONS, TWO ARMIES, TWO ZONES OF
CONTROL, AND THREE POLITICAL FORCES IN SOUTH VIETNAM. MEANWHILE,
THE STRUGGLE OF THE PEOPLE UNDER THE SAIGON CONTROL FOR PEACE,
INDEPENDENCE, DEMOCRACY, WELFARE, NATIONAL CONCORD,
AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PARIS AGREEMENT IS DEVELOPING
INCESSANTLY, TO THE GREATER AND GREATER ISOLATION OF THE
NGUYEN VAN THIEU CLIQUE OF WAR-MANIACS AND FASCISTS.
THE PAPER STRESSED: THERE ARE ONLY TWO POSSIBLE COURSES OF
ACTION NOW. IF THE UNITED STATES REALLY WANTS TO SEE GENUINE
PEACE I N SOUTH VIETNAM, TO HELP CONSOLIDATE PEACE I N INDOCHINA
AND SOUTHEAST ASIA, AND NORMALIZE RELATIONS WITH THE DEMOCRATIC
REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM, LFT IT SCRUPULOUSLY RESPECT AND SERIOUSLY TTNCLA'!1I7IED
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IMPLEMENT ALL THE PROVISIONS OF THE PARIS AGREEMENT AND THE
JUNE 13, 1973 JOINT COMMUNIQUE. ON THE OTHER HAND, IF9 IN
SPITE OF DEFEAT, IT PERSISTS IN VIOLATING THE AGREEMENT AND
JOINT COMMUNIQUE OF PARIS, GIVING AID AND CO, FORT TO THE
VENTURESOME SAIGON ADMINISTRATION, IT WILL RUN AGAINST STIFF
RESISTANCE BY THE VIETNAMESE PEOPLE, AND WILL INCUR STILL
HEAVIER DEFEATS.
NOW9 THE UNITED STATESHM GIPROPOSED A MEETING FOR THE
DRV'S REPRESENTATIVE AND ITS OWN. THE DRV GOVERNMENT HAS
AGREED TO THIS, AND ITS REPRESENTATIVE WILL BE IN PARIS
FULL OF GOOD WILL AND SINCERITY AS USUAL. THE OUTCOME,
NATURALLY, WILL DEPEND ON WHETHER OR NOT THE UNITED STATES
WILL SERIOUSLY IMPLEMENT TLEAGREEMENT AND JOINT COMMUNIQUE
OF PARIS, THE PAPER POINTED OUT. 140659 ENDALL-BURTON
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