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promise of success. The Government has long wished to see
military violence end in Vietnam and to see its friend and
neighbour, the United States, disengage itself from that
military conflict. If the parties to that conflict invite
Canada to play a role in which we could effectively contribute
to a cessation of hostilities there and which would help the
United States to end its military involvement in Vietnam,
we would of course consider the invitation sympathetically
and constructively. There is no question, however, of
Canada, as a part of a new commission, attempting to
maintain peace through the use of arms. The implementation
of the ceasefire would be the responsibility of the belliger-
ents, and the role being contemplated for a new inter-
national commission would be to observe and report on the
implementation of these parts of the ceasefire agreement
which the commission is asked to supervise.
In considering the invitation to participate in a
new commission, however, we would have an obligation to
the people of Canada, to this House, and to those Canadians
who would be asked to go to Vietnam to implement our role
there which, I should emphasize once again, would not be
a military role but would involve only observation and
reporting, to ensure that Canada's contribution could be
a real and effective one, and to ensure that Canada's
attempt to contribute to peace not be reduced once again
to impotence as it has been in the supervisory arrange-
ments in Indochina that emerged from the 1954 and 1962
Geneva conferences.
Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library
DECLASSIFIED
5/
This document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified
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