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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 36, Number 18. 26th July 1973

Recognise the PRG

Recognise the PRG

I would not press for derecognition of the Thieu regime. I think that the countries that recognise it now should recognise the PRG and, using these contacts, pressurise both these people to agree to follow and implement strictly the terms of the Paris Agreements and get on with their business, but not interfere in any other way.

The Paris Peace Agreements call for non-interference, and they limit quite strictly the kind of aid that can be given. If the United States Government would stop its material aid to the Saigon government, if it would not help replace part for part each item on their military lists, the Thieu regime would in all probability collapse very, very quickly. The people would desert it. That's certainly true. Therefore, I would think that part of the way of applying pressure on the United States is to isolate its own position by recognising the PRG and showing the United States that the world, that the international system itself, can constitute a counter-balance.

A concert of nations in the international system recognising the PRG constitutes a setback for the United States in its plan to keep the Thieu regime as the only one that is observed in the world.