Saigon not moved

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33052, 20 October 1972, Page 13

Saigon not moved

(N Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) SAIGON, Oct. 19. South Vietnam’s Government today reaffirmed its refusal to accept the coalition Government proposed by the Communists, after a 3|-hour meeting between the United States Presidential adviser, Dr Henry Kissinger, and President Thieu. President Nixon’s chief for. eign policy adviser and the South Vietnamese President reviewed Dr Kissinger’s secret peace negotiations in Paris at a meeting attended by 13 other high-level United States and Vietnamese officials. There was no official word and no leak of what was said at the session in President Thieu’s Independence Palace. A North Vietnamese spokesman in Paris said that peace is no nearer despite Dr Kissinger’s negotiations. Mr Nguyen Thahn Le, the official spokesman for Hanoi’s delegation to the Paris peace talks, said that Mr Thieu still stood in the way of a settlement and declared, "up to now the Vietnamese problem is not yet settled. “The Nixon Administration refuses to bring an end to this war of aggression, refuses to abandon the traitor, Nguyen Van Thieu.”