"When you go back home I would like you to extend our enormous thanks to our friends in New Zealand for their support for the Vietnamese people. Of course it would have been much better if we had been able to come to New Zealand, but because we have been unable to do so we are very pleased that you have come here to meet us".

With these words Le Duy Van, the Secretary of the Peace Committee of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, greeted four members of the Committee on Vietnam who flew to Sydney to meet the joint peace delegation from the D.R.V. and the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam during the final stage of the delegation's visit to Australia.