HOKOYAMA'S MEETINGS WITH SOUTH VIETNAMES LIBERATION FRONT AND NORTH VIETNAMESE

Created: 5/20/1966

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METINGS WITH SOUTH VIINAMESE

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DURING HIS PEACE MISSION TO EUROPE AND ASIA JAPANESE PEACE AMBASSADOR YOKOYAMA MASAYUKIITH CHUONG, SOUTH VIETNAM NATIONAL LIBERATION FRON i REPRESENTATIVE IN PRAGUE, AND NGUYEN VAN AN, NORTH VIETNAMESE CHARGE D'AFFAIRES IN ALGIERS.

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CHU0N3 INFORMED YOKOYAMA THAT PERHAPS JAPAN COULD MAKE SOME CONTRIBUTION TO BRING ABOUT AN END OF THE VIETNAMESE CONFLICT. HOWEVER CHUONG CRITICIZED JAPAN FOR ITS COOPERATION WITH THE UNITED STATES FOR THE TRANSPORT AND REPAIR OF UNITED STATES WAR EQUIPMENT AND MANUFACTURE OF NAPALM ANO WEAPONS TOUNITED STATES FORCES IN VIETNAM.

2. THE NORTH VIETNAMESE CHARGE IN ALGIERS CITED THE FOUR POINTS PUT FORTH BY HANOI AS CONDITIONS FOR SETTLEMENT OF THEVIETNAM SITUATION ANO ALSO CRITICIZED JAPAN FOR ITS CLOSE COOPERATION WITH THE UNITED STATES. NGUYEN VAN AN ALSO STATED THAT NORTH VIETNAM'S DIPLOMACY IS NOT SECRET AND OKOYAMA THAT ANY SECRET NEGOTIATIONS HAD BEEN UNDERTAKEN BY NORTH VIETNAM WITH THE UNITED STATES.

5. WHILE IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA, YOKOYAMA MET WITH THE CZECH VICE MINISTER OF FOhEIGN AFFAIRS, WHO INFORMED HIM THAT CZECHOSLOVAKIA HOPES JAPAN WILL ADVISE THE UNITED STATES TO STOP BOMBING NORTH VIETNAM AND STOP ESCALATING THE WAR IN SOUTH VIETNAM. YOKOYAMA ALSO MET WITH CZECH DIRECTOR GENERAL OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS MIHAOVSKY (PHONETIC) WHO SAID ALMOST THE SAME THING BUT ADDED THAT JAPAN MUST CORRECT THE MISUNDERSTANDING

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