Coexistence ‘Only Way To Avoid War’
Coexistence was the only alternative to the next world war, the Minister of the Soviet Legation in Wellington (Mr B. Dorofeev) said in Christchurch last evening.
Some countries thought it quite possible to accept coexistence and at the same time to interfere with the affairs of other Socialist states, he said.
“We are against exporting revolution,” he said. “And we are against exporting the counter-revolution. “We think Vietnam is a pure example of exporting counter-revolution.”
Mr Dorofeev was addressing a meeting of the N.Z.-U.S.S.R. Society in the W.E.A. Hall. He said the Vietnamese had
been fighting for independence about 20 years. In the Second World War there were the Japanese invaders; then the French With their colonial system. Mr Dorofeev said the Vietnamese managed to get independence after the Geneva Convention agreement of 1954, and in two years they should have had a general election. But then the forces of the United States went to Vietnam. To the Vietnamese, this was provocation. “The Vietnamese are fighting for their independence,” said Mr Dorofeev.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31317, 13 March 1967, Page 1
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