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Vice President Ky's Current Views on Paris Talks
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President Kyhe plans to departii to stay in Paris two or three weeks and expects to' return "td(SVN)ossible Christmas-New Years recess in thesaid he docs not want to be absent from SVN for long becausedevelopments might require hi* presence here.
emphasizes(GVN) 'negotiating team. The head of the official delegationhis instructions directly from Ky and if he does not follow them
Ky will dismiss him. Ky said although he will not be sitting at the negotiating table, the words spoken there will be his words and the decisions reached will be his decisions. Ky also advised that Pham Dang Lam would head the GVN official delegation, at least for the immediate future. He noted thatead of delegation hasery difficult task because the individual who is selected must bee must be acceptable to North Vietnamese, South Vietnamese, Buddhists, Catholics, the military, etc., said Ky, and he must be willing to accept Ky's direction without question. In Ky's view, Lam fits this description. Ky described Laman without much initiative but one who will follow directions.
said he will organize the GVN team as follows: He willteam and have an immediate personal staff for support in such areas
^ as (a) the substantive talks, (b) constitutional or lrgalc)ffairs, (d) information, and (e)elow Ky and his personal staff, the official representation will be divided Into three groups: (a) the negotiating tea,m, (b) the lobby group, which will be composed offrom SVN who wlU attend the talks officially but will not be members of the negotiating team, and (c) the Lnformation group. Dang Due Khoi and Nguyen Ngoc Linh, two members ofntourage who will be on his personal staff, will head the information group, while former Open Arms Minister Nguyen Xuan Phong will head up his personal staff. Ky said he did not know who would lead the lobby group but said Phong would be his staff man for lobby group activities. (This description of Ky's staff agrees In substance, although not in all details, with Thieu's concept, as reported earlier by another source.)
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his biggest problem will concern concessions which he might have toreturn for an agreement. He said he views the war in two parts; by North Vietnam (DRV) against the South Vietnamese andwar between the South. between theFront (NFLSV) and the GVN. Referring to the Northsaid
frome;feels the wiyidr.ftxyjk!,agreementpr the
e reasons that the DRVombing halt withoutand therefore the GVN.ought at least toRV_agrelementto pn .withdrawal before granting concessions of its own. He realizes that an American troop withdrawal might be linked with DRV withdrawal and feels strongly'"the^DRV-withdrawal.
RV"wili not "feirivade'SVN,-*
particularly .afterignificant withdrawalforces-hasnegotiations on this point will be long and difficult andin SVN. -Ky said he
hopes to take the offensive in the Paris talks and he will be reasonableas well as firm. He is aware that properto'a'fair"settlemeftt.
Once DRV forces have agreed to withdraw from SVN and after these forces have been Identified and fixed,ieves.itmight be poih. sible__to haye.a. ceasefire'between allied forcesRV units. This doesmeari'that the ceasefire would apply to the Viet Cong, said Ky. Ky believes that the GVN shouldSVcJias .solved theprobjem.pf Qxc DRV'serms whereby members of the NFLSV would be integrated into SVN society should be negotiated between the GVN and the NFLSV and treated as an internal Soji^Vietnarn,ese_ma>tter.
Referring to his limited stay in Paris, Ky said he must return to SVN often to keep an eye-on.inJcrnaLpqlit;cai.developniehts. He said he has advised the President that the current government is too weak toeace, adding that he would like to see changes made in the cabinet toits ability to persuade the South Vietnamese people toaris settlement. Ky added that he has given Thieu advice or. this matter but has not and will.not demand^sidered.t0 be
e said that Thieu must organize his government so that it can function under peacetime conditions. However, Ky was quick to add he has little faith in Thieu's ability to succeed and said that the Vietnamese and the Americans shouM wriocVofpolitical unrest.*.
8. Calling attention to the generation gap, Ky noted that current_CVN
youngere said thethe youth will Insist on an efficient governmenteacetimeKy's view it would be well for. and the GVN to allow aof political turmoil in the country to permit evolution of athat represents the real wishes of the Vietnamese people. To
believes that the problem is to guide and control the revolutionary processes and not to suppress them. He noted that Thieu appointed Prime Minister Tran Van Huong, at American urging, because the Americans though^ Huong would unite theNow,JVsatd-Kyr','Huong*U^ kSKLSL*rv leavinghecabinet isKy* believes ^easvandModern communications can develop closer cooperation, but Asians, Including the Vietnamese, must be allowed toational spirit, select their own leaders and form their own political institutions.
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mistion in Yicu^mjias.-don*'. so. He suggested that immediate attention be given to the problems created by the demobilization of ARVN. vacate* planning now tois-^
^Bj^tledsoldiery^cm creating politicaTunrest anil to permit the Vietnameseebuild their.country in ah orderly manner*.
said he badleasant conversation withand Berger onovember and added that he hopes to meetagain before his departure in order toepetitionGVN dispute over the Paris talks question. he hopes that Americans in Paris wilt understand that he will haveviews and that while he is willing to listen to the views of others andhe will not be dictated to. He stressed that he is notas some Vietnamese and American officials claim, but ratherand true friend ofndependent non-CommunisJ;^ietnanv
advising that his wife would accompany him to Paris,'delq. yj sit the United Statefor theNixon -He wants to give the newto get to know him first hand andhe^in. turn, "would-like-to"6*
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