it failed because the french and the british were unhappy about supporting such a move  and indeed the united nations looked very likely er er to be more erm willing to condemn the united states than it was to condemn north vietnam  but the view of most countries in the world at that time was that north viet that north and south vietnam were part of the same country, that the geneva accords in nineteen fifty four which called for unification should be upheld, and that the united states was interfering in, in a south east asian country for no good reason.