Speech delivered by
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Nguyen Thi Binh, head of
the delegation of the South
Vietnam Provisional
Revoiutionary Government,
at the 119th plenary session
of the Paris Conference

on Vietnam (July 1, 1971)

Gentlemen:

Over two years and a half now,
with the intention of finding a solution
to the South Vietnamese problem, the
National Front for Liberation and the
Provisional Revolutionary Government
of the Republic of South Vietnam
have constantly presented to the Paris
Conference on Vietnam important
peace proposals: the 5-Point Position
issued on November 3, 1968, the 10-
Point Overall Solution of May 8, 1969,
the 8-Point Peace Initiative of Septem-
ber 17, 1970 and the 3-Point Declara-
tion on a cease-fire; of December 19,
1970.

These just, rational and right pro-
posals have always had the broad
sympathy and support of Vietnam, in
the world, and even in the United
States. Had the U.S. government
seriously responded to those propos-
als, this Conference would have suc-
cessfully been carried out and peace
would have already been restored.

However, the Nixon administration
has put into full play the “Vietnamiza-

tion” policy, prolonging the war in ©

Vietnam and expanding it to the whole
of Indochina, insisting on keeping to
popositions of strength, hindering more
and more the progress of the negotia-
tions.

To cope with this situation, the
peoples of Vietnam, Laos and Cam-
bodia have strengthened their solidar-
ity and their determination to fight for
independence and freedom, and they
have obtained great and repeated vic-
tories in every aspect. The U.S. “Viet-
namization” of the war policy will un-
questionably meet a total defeat.

In every South Vietnamese city,
people of all strata, all peace-loving,
patriotic and progressive forces have
gathered together in a nation-wide
front never seen before in our history,
resolutely struggling for an end to the
U.S. aggression and the prompt with-
drawal of all U.S. troops from South
Vietnam, for the overthrow of the
rotten, bellicose Saigon administra-
tion, and for peace, independence,
neutrality, democracy and national
concord. Anti-war forces in the United
States ceaselessly demand that the
Nixon administration, give up its
“Vietnamization” policy, fix the date

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On July 1, with these proposals for peace, the Vietnamese
people showed U.S. imperialism the way out of their country.
Six weeks later the U.S. economy was in deep crisis, having
jettisoned $200 billion in its criminal war in Vietnam. Here,
then, are the Seven Points for Peace in Vietnam that mankind
is demanding the Nixon Administration to accept NOW.

for the prompt withdrawal of all USS.
troops, and annul all war budgets for
the war in Indochina, etc. All over the
world, the peoples and governments
of many countries support with ever
increasing resolve the cause of natio-
nal liberation of the peoples of Viet-
nam, Laos and Cambodia, and demand
total withdrawal of the United States
forces from Indochina so that the
peoples in these regions may freely
solve their own affairs without foreign
interference.

Based on the aspirations of the
Vietnamese people for peace and na-
tional independence, responding to the
desires for peace of the U.S. and
world’s people, and in order to express
its good will, and help the progress of
the Paris Talks on Vietnam, based on

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the 10-Point - Overall Solutions, and
following the 8-Point Initiative of
September 17, 1970, and the 3-Point.
Initiative of December 10, 1970, the
Provisional Revolutionary Government
of the Republic of South Vietnam de-
clares as follows:
1—Concerning the date for the |
withdrawal of all U.S. troops
The U.S. government must put an
end to its aggressive war in Vietnam,
stop its “Vietnamization” policy and
withdraw from South Vietnam all
troops, military personnel, weapons
and war materials of the United States
and of foreign countries belonging to
the U.S. camp and dismantle all U.S.
military bases in South Vietnam,
without imposing any condition what-
soever. It must fix the date for the

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