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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 36, Number 1. 28th February 1973

'This is a Great Victory, I Want to Stress That'

'This is a Great Victory, I Want to Stress That'

Whenever the Vietnamese were asked about the future of their own country, they referred to the provisions of the Peace Agreement signed at the end of January. They repeated the view, expressed in Hanoi, Peking and Moscow after the Agreement had been signed, that it was a great victory for the Vietnamese people, their socialist allies and people all over the world who loved peace and justice. 'This is a great victory, I want to-stress that", Vu Dinh told Salient.

At the reception for the delegation he was asked for his reaction to claims that the Agreement did not establish the South Vietnamese people's right to self-determination and did not mean the prospect of genuine peace throughout Vietnam. People who talked like that would, he said, "be revealed by the Agreements themselves".

In Vu Dinh's opinion the fact that the Agreement clearly established the end of all American interference in Vietnamese affairs and provided for the peaceful reunification of Vietnam, obviously showed the extent to which the U.S. Government had been forced to bow to Vietnamese demands.