NORTH VIETNAMESE OFFICIAL'S COMMENTS ON PEACE NEGOTIATIONS

Created: 9/15/1967

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SUBJECT NORTH VIETNAMESE OFFICIAL'S COMMENTS ON PEACE NEGOTIATIONS

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withnist party on propaganda matters, made the followwentsearly sept.7 on peace negotiations

a. the principal objective in propaganda activity continues to beadvocat: f complete and unconditional cessationrdments of north vietnamhe united ,'ates. this objective must continue to stand by itself and should not be tied to anyro quo on the part of the north vietnamese government.

if the bombardment of north vietnam by the united states ceases,

2 mdr vietnam would begin negotiations with the united states. however, the north

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VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT WOULD TAKE NO POSITION ON THE FORM THES6 NEGOTIATIONS WOULD TAKE PRIOR TO THE UNCONDITIONAL CESSATION Of BOMBARDMENTS.

C. THE NORTH VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT IS OPPOSED TO ANY NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT. THE UNITED STATES MJST NEGOTIATE DIRECTLY

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D. THE NORTH VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT IS OPPOSED TO ANY NEW GENEVA CONFERENCE | RTH VIETNAMESE POSITION, WHICH IS

SHARED BY THE SOVIET UNION, REFLECTS THE NEED FOR EXCLUDING COMMJNIST CHINA FROM ANY Rt LEON THE VIETNAM WAR. COMMUNISTIS OPPOSED TC THE

PRESENT NORTH VIETNAMESE POSITION ON NEGOTIATIONS.)

2. LE DINH NAHN COMMENTED THAT THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE ELECTION RESULTS CAUSED INOiASED DISUNITY IN SOUTH VIETNAM AND THAT HEAT ALL SORTS OF PROPOSITIONS ON PEACE NEGOTIATION OULD SOON BE FORTHCOMINGESULT. NONE OF THESE PROPOSITIONS WOULD BE CONSIDERED,'i WEVER, UNLESS THERE WAS FIRST AN UNCONDITIONAL CESSATION OF BOMBARDMENTSORTH VIETNAS.'

3- LE )INK NAHN EXPRESSED GRATIF1CATI ON THAT IN FRANCE AND TnE UNITED STATES pull IC

OPINION WAS .NCREASINGLY FAVORABLE TO NORTH VIETNAM'S POSITIONS. IN HIS VIEW, THERE APPEARS

TO BEOMPLETE UNITY OF OPINION TilAT THE UNITED STATES SHOULD CEASE ITS BOMBING OF

THE NORTH. NAHN ATTACHED PARTICULAR IMPORTANCE TO THE FAVORABLE TREND HE BELIEVES

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prospects for settling the vietnamese WAR on its own terms, and he appears to

expect that the united states, in response to public opinion, will soon stop its edmbing of north vietnam.

5. Field dissem. state (anb, dcm, pol oounsellorincpac, arpac, pacaf, pacflt (also sent saigon, paris, bangkok, hong kong).

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