DRV DELEGATION ISSUES STATEMENT ON DRV-U.S. ECONOMIC TALKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-250-6-46-7
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: August 5, 2010
• Sequence Number: 46
• Publication Date: July 25, 1973
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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DRV DELEGATION ISSUES STATEMENT ON DRV-U.S. ECONOMIC TALKS
3251807 HANOI VNA IN ENGLISH 1742 GMT 25 JUL 73 5
(TEXT) HANOI VNA JULY 25--THE DELEGATION OF THE DRV GOVERNMENT
TO THE DRV-U.S. JOINT ECONOMIC COMMISSION IN PARIS TODAY ISSUED
THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT:
IN ACCORDANCE WITH PARAGRAPH 14 OF THE JUNE 13, 1973, JOINT
COMMUNIQUE, THE DRV-U.S. JOINT ECONOMIC COMMISSION RESUMED
ITS WORK ON JUNE 19, 1973, TO CONTINUE THE TALKS ON THE CONTRIBUTION
OF THE UNITED STATES TO THE HEALING OF WAR WOUNDS AND TO THE POSTWAR
RECONSTRUCTION ODMARTICLE REPUBLIC OF
PARIS AGREEMENT VIEW
TO PUTTING INTO PRACTICE
VIETNAM.
"THE DRV GOVERNMENT DELEGATION, FULL OF GOODWILL, HAS MADE
ALL-OUT EFFORTS OF LEAD THE CONFERENCE TO GOOD RESULTS, BUT THE
U.S. GOVERNMENT DELEGATION DELIBERATELY RAISED ALL KINDS OF
03STRUCTIONS TO DRAG ON THE TALKS AND THEREBY PREVENT THE SIGNING
OF THE DOCUMENTS ON THE AGREED QUESTIONS.
"THE DRV GOVERNMENT DELEGATION TO THE COMMISSION DEEMS IT
NECESSARY THAT THE TWO PARTIES TEMPORARILY DISCONTINUE THE MEETINGS
TO REPORT TO THEIR RESPECTIVE GOVERNMENTS AND RECEIVE INSTRUCTIONS
FROM THEM. ON JULY 23, 1973, THE TWO SIDES AGREED UPON THIS
PROPOSAL."
25 JUL 2054Z DEH/CAJ
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RANOI EL MES U. S. FOR BRINGING ABOUT SUSPENSION OF JEC TALKS AND
DE LANDS TtLAT U.S. IMPLEMENT ARTICLE 21 OF IBE PSIS AGREE ENT.
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HANOI CONDE'1NS U.S. FOR ECONO1IC CO?411,1iSSION 'DIFFICULTIES'
3:260618 HANOI I N VI..:TNAESE TO VIETNAM 0440 G'~-T . 26 JUL 73 D
(TEXT) THE UNITED STATES HAS CONTINUED TO CREATE
DIFFICULTIES FOR THE WORX OF THE JOINT ECONOMIC
0JMMISSION, ACCORDING TO VNA.
ARTICLE 14 OF THE 13 JU",}E 1973 JOINT COMMUNIQUE
SPECIFIES THAT IN COMPLIANCE WITH A cTICLE 21 OF THE PARIS
AGREEMENT, THE DRV-U.S. JOINT ' ECONO ?IC COMMISSION
"WILL RESUME MEETINGS WIT141INN 4 DAYS AFTER THE SIGNING
OF THE JOINT CO,MMUNIOUE- AND COMPLETE THE-FIRST STAGE OF
ITS WORK 13 DAYS THEREAFTER."
THE JOINT ECO'.O ?IC COMMITSSION RESUMED MEETING IN
?ARIS ON 19 JUNE. MORE THAN .30 DAYS HAVE PASSED BUT
THE COMMISSION STILL HAS YET TO FINISH ITS WORK AS
STIPULATED IN THE JOINT COMMUNIQUE.
ON 25 JULY THE DRV DELEGATION- IN THE JOINT ECONOMIC
COMMISSION ISSUED A PRESS STATEMENT POINTING OUT THAT
"THE DRV DELEGATION, DISPLAYING UTMOST GOOD WILL, DID ITS
BEST TO BRING THE CONFERENCE TO A SUCCESSFUL. CONCLUSION.
WEVER,. BECAUSE OF THE DIFFICULTIES DELIBERATELY
CAUSED BY THE U.S. DELEGATION, THE MEETINGS OF THE
( MMISSION HAVE BEEN PROLONGED BUT .}[AVE FAILED TO
ACHIEVE (WORDS INDISTINCT) ON THE PROBLEMS ALREADY AGREED
UPO N,
. N JIFW OF THIS SITUATIO?1, THE DRV DELEGATION 1M THE
. INT c COMOMIC COMMISSION DEEMS IT NECESSARY FOR BOTH SIDES
TO TEMPORARILY SUSPEND THE MEETINGS IN ORDER TO REPORT
TO.AND? CONSULT WITH THEIR RESPECTIVE GOVERNMENTS.
IT IS EVIDENT THAT THE UNITED STATES MUST SEAR
RE PONSIBILITY FOR THE DELAY "IN THE' WORK OF THE JOINT
ECC`}O=MIC COMMISSION BECAUSE THE UNITED STATES HAS
I?1TENTIGNALLY CREATED DIFFICULTIES AND REFUSED TO SIGN
THE AGREEMENTS ALREADY REACHED. WE RESOLUTELY DE`'1AND
THAT THE UNITED STATES' SCRUPULOUSLY IMPLEMENT ARTICLE
21 OF . THE PARIS AGREEMENT WHICH STIPULATES. THAT IT IS
THE 331 IGATION OF THE UNITED STATES TO CONTRIBUTE TO
HEALING WAR WOUNDS AND AID POSTWAR RECONSTRUCTION IN
THE DRu.
2S J UL '. 713 Z SG/T!
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