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    "ocrText": "Digitized from Box 38 of the NSA. Kissinger-Scowcroft West Wing Office Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library\n5d\nSECRED NODIS\nUNOFFICIAL TRANSLA TION\nDecember 31, 1968\n1.\nWe have on several occasions clearly declared that we came to\nParis with a serious attitude and full of goodwill. If the US\nsincerely desires to resolve the problem and reach an honorable\nsolution, as it has often said, it also must have a serious attitude\nand goodwill.\n2. In order to arrive at a peaceful solution to the problem of Vietnam\nour position is very clear. It is founded on the Four Points of the\nDemocratic Republic of Vietnam, which were reaffirmed on\nNovember 2, 1968. We also approve the Five Points for a political\nsolution of the problem of South Vietnam put forward by the National\nLiberation Front on November 3, 1968.\n3.\nAt the present time, if the conference of the four in Paris has not\nyet begun, it is because the Saigon Adrninistration uses procedural\nissues to delay its opening, and because the representatives of the\nUS support the absurd demands of the Saigon Administration, It\nis only after the opening of the conference that one will be able to\ndiscuss the deeper questions relating to. a peaceful solution to the\nproblem. However, if the US wishes, it may communicate its\ngeneral ideas, and its specific ideas for making more precise\npoints that are already known, for our serious examination,\nMai Van Bo commentary: At the beginning, I believe that the\nquestion is to know if the US wants peace, if it really wishes to\nwithdraw its troops from South Vietnam, or if it only talks of this\nto make it possible to do nothing. For the rest, evidence indicates\nthat the Saigon Administration does not want peace. Instead it wishes\nthat the US remain in Vietnam so that it can continue to make a\nliving from the war. As the US already leans on that Administration,\nwe seriously doubt its attitude. To be quite honest, as long as the\nThieu-Ky-Huang clique remains at the head of that Administration,\nit will be difficult to settle any of these problems.\nR.\nEORO\n*\ndiscussion of the Four and Five Points is at Tab-C.\nDECLASSIFIED\nNECAL T/ NODIS\nE.O. 12958, Sec. 3.5\nState Dept. Guidelines\nBy it\n, NARA, Date 12/15/99"
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