- Title: HONGKONG: GENERAL NGUYEN KHANH ARRIVES ENROUTE TO UNITED NATIONS
- Date: 26th February 1965
- Summary: 1. MS KHANH INTO PRESS CONFERENCE ROOM: AND SITS 4 1/2 ft 2. MCU KHANH TALKS TO PRESSMEN (FOUR SHOTS) 22 ft 3. MS KHANH DRIVEN OFF IN CAR AT END OF CONFERENCE 26 ft Initials CAR/VS/CA/YA/RBI Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 13th March 1965 12:00
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- Location: HONGKONG
- Country: Hong Kong
- Reuters ID: LVA8C5KVNCBDO20AGA15SZA8QRGI
- Story Text: SOUTH VIETNAM'S NEWLY APPOINTED ROVING AMBASSADOR, LIEUTENANT GENERAL NGUYEN KHANH, SAID IN HONGKONG YESTERDAY (THURSDAY), THAT NEGOTIATIONS ON THE VIETNAM ISSUE WERE NOT POSSIBLE AT THE PRESENT TIME.
GENERAL KHANH ARRIVED FROM SAIGON ENROUTE TO THE UNITED NATIONS IN NEW YORK, TO EXPLAIN THE VIETNAM SITUATION.HE TOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE: "THE COMMUNISTS IN SOUTH VIETNAM ARE AGGRESSORS.THEIR SO-CALLED WAR OF LIBERATION IS AN INVASION.SO WE CAN'T TALK UNTIL THE COMMUNISTS WITHDRAW.THUS ANY SOLUTION FOR PEACE MUST HAVE THE AGREEMENT OF THE VIETNAMESE PEOPLE."
GENERAL KHANH, WHO WAS IN UNIFORM, MET PRESSMEN AT HONGKONG AIRPORT ONLY A FEW HOURS AFTER HE HAD FORMALLY TRANSFERRED HIS COMMAND AS ARMED FORCES CHIEF TO MAJOR-GENERAL TRAN VAN MINH IS SAIGON.
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