CEASE-FIRE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-254-3-37-6
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: April 28, 2010
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: July 8, 1971
• Content Type: CABLE

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W H 1?64 9 FINAL SECTION, OF TWO'
THE "7 'POINTS' REPRESENT A HARDER POSITION IN RESPECT TO CEASE.
FIRE. THE "3 POINT" PROPOSAL OF DECEMBER 10, 1970 FATED THAT A
A;SE-FIRE WITH" U.S. TROOPS WOULD BE OBSERVED IMMEDIATELY AFTER'
C, .J0% SET A. JUME SO# 1971) DEADLINE* THE NEW PROP'OSAL#
HOWEVER, CALLS FOR A WITHDRAWAL AGREEMENT PRIOR TO SUCH A CEASE-
FIRE.
THE "3 POINTS" STATED THAT A CEASE-FIRE WITH GVI4 FORCES WOULD
BE OBSERVED IMMEDIATELY AFTER A NEW SAIGON GOVERNMENT AGREED TO
FORM A COALITION GOVERNMENT. THE "7 POI4, T5," ON THE OTHER HAND*
CALL FOR THE ACTUAL FORMATION OF A COALITION GOVERNMENT PRIOR
TO A CEASE-FIRE.
FUTURE STATUS. OF VIETNAMESE ARMED FORCES
THE "7 POINT'" PROPOSAL CONTAINS NEW LANGUAGE WHICH STATES THAT
THE QUESTION OF THE VIETNAMESE ARMED FORCES WILL BE "SETTLED"'
WITH A VIEW "TO MAKINGS LIGHTER THE PEOPLE'S CONTRIBUTION^." IT
.SEEMS LIKELY THAT THE COMMUNISTS WOULD SEEK TO LIGHTEN "THE
PEOPLE'S CONTRIBUTION" BY REDUCING OR DISBA JDING TNNE ARVN.
POL IT ICAL SETTLEMENT
POINT TWO OWN A POLITICAL SETTLEMENT IS PROBABLY INTENDED,
INTER ALIA, TO ENCOURAGE BOTH SOUTH VIETNAMESE VOTERS AND THE
U.S. TO OUST THIEU IN THE COMING ELECTIONS. THE "VARIOUS
MEANS" WHICH MAY BE USED IN DISPOSING OF THIEU NO DOUBT INCLUDE
ELECTIONS--DESPITE COMMUNIST INSISTENCE THAT THESE ELECTIONS
"CANNOT BE FREE."
COMMUNIST CONCERN ABOUT THE UPCOMING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
,IS IMPLIED IN THE DEMAND THAT THE U.S. MUST STOP ELECTION
"TRICKS" DESIGNED TO MAINTAIN THIEU IN POWER. THIS. IS ALSO
REFLECTED IN THE ? LE DUG THO INTERVIEW CITED ABOVE..
POINT TWO DEMANDS THAT THE U.S. CEASE BACKING THE "BELLICOSE
GROUP" HEADED BY THIEU "AT PRESENT." THIS PROBABLY MEANS THAT
THE PRESENT TYPE OF GUN OR "BELLICOSE GROUP") MUST 00 REGARD-
LESS OF WHO MIGHT SUCCEED T}LIEU.
THE FACT T.H T THIS PROPOSAL DOES tlOT, LIKE PREVIOUS PROPOSALS,
CALL FOR THE REMOVAL THE THIEU KY, AND KH1EM CAN BE ATTRIBUTED
TO KY' S CURRENT OPPOSIT IOd"1 TO ?HIED. THE COMMUNISTS. AT THIS
TINE, WANT TO EXPLOIT THIS "INTERNAL CONTRADICTION" BY FOCUSING
THEIR ATTACKS ON THIEU ALONE*
THE `7 POINTS" SUBSTITUTE "GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL, CONCORD"
FOR THE 'LESS 'PALATABLE "PROVISIONAL COALITION GOVERNMENT"
PREVIOUSLY" PROPOSED* THE PRO SPOKESMAN CONFIRMEW HOWEVER, THAT
THE COMPOSITION OR . SUCH A GOVERNMENT WOULD BE THE SAME AS IN
PREVIOUS PROPOSALS. ALA, UNLIKE PREVIOUS PROPOSALS, THE "7
HINTS"' DO 'NOT MENTION THAT A COALITION .GOVERNMENT WILL,;SE
FORMED ~ AS THE RESULT' OF FUTURE, ELECTIONS.'
No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/04/28: LOC-HAK-254-3-37-6
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REUNIFICATION
THE- POINT ON REUNIFICATION IS BASICALLY NOT NEW EXCEPT. FOR RE-
FERENCES TO FREE MOVEMENTS FREE CHOICE OF RESIDENCES, AND FREE
CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE NORTH AND SOUTH "ZONF-S." AS. MENTIONED
ABOVE, THE "FREE CHOICE OF RESIDENCE" COULD BE USED TO THWART
FORCED REPATRIATION OF NORTH VIETNAMESE POWS. "FREE MOVEMENT"
COULD LEGITIMIZE THE MOVEMENT OF TROOPS, POLITICAL CADRES, AND
OTHERS FROM THE NORTH TO SOUTR VIETNAM.
FOREIGN RELATIONS
THE `7 POINTS" GO FARTHER THAN PREVIOUS PROPOSALS IN STATING
A WILLINGNESS TO ACCEPT AID FROM AND MAINTAIN TIES WITH THE
U.S, AND OTHER FOREIGN COUNTRIES. THIS WAS DESIGNED TO
REASSURE THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE THAT THE PROPOSED CHANGE IN
GOVERNMEt1T WOULD NOT RESULT IN ISOLATION FROM THE 1.S? AND
OTHER PEON-COMMUNIST COUNTRIES, NOR WOULD IT CUT OFF ECONOMIC
ASSISTANCE FROM THESE COUNTRIES. LE DUC THO IN HIS RECENT
ITMJTERVIEW) NOTED THAT AFTER THE WAR WITH FRANCE WAS SETTLED
"THERE,WAS NO OBSTACLE" TO BUILDING *FRIENDL.Y" RELATIONS
BETWEEN THE FRENCH AND VIETNAMESE PEOPLE. IN FACTS SUCH RELATIONS
WERE ALMOST TOTALLY SEVERED BY HANOI AFTER THE WAR ENDED.
REPARATIONS ti
IT IS SIGNIFICANT THAT THE ABOVE POINT WAS FOLLOWED DY A RENEWAL
OF T: 1969 "10 POINT") DEMAND FOR REPARATIONS. THIS INDICATES
THE NATURE OF "ECONOMIC AID" EXPECTED FROM THE U.S. THE
COMMUNISTS MIGHT ALSO FEEL THAT THE CURRENT ATMOSPHERE IN THE
U.S. MAKES THIS A. PROPITIOUS TIME TO RAISE THE REPARATIONS
QUEST ION. .
INTERNATIONAL GUARANTEE
THE "7 POINT" REFERENCE TO AN *INTERNATIONAL GUARANTEE" OF
A SETTLEMENT IS MEW AND WAS PROBABLY ADDED TO MAKE THE WHOLE
PROPOSAL MORE ATTRACTIVE. THE NORTH VIETNAMESE SPOKESMAN
DAMPENED SPECULATION THAT THIS MIGHT HINT AT A COMMUNIST
WILLI')GNESS TO ENGAGE IN AM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THIS
SUBJECT* LITTLE MORE CAN BE SAID ON THIS POINT WITHOUT FURTHER
CLARIFICATION FROM THE COMMUNIST SIDE.
THE LE DUC THO INTERVIEW MADE IT' CLEAR THAT THE COMMUNISTS
WILL INSIST THAT THE U.S. DISCUSS THE ENTIRE SEVEN POINTS
AND NOT JUST POINT ONE ON WITHDRAWAL AND PRISONER RELEASES,
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No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/04/28: LOC-HAK-254-3-37-6