Hanoi was quick to respond by agreeing to meet the representatives of the United States only a few days later, and Paris was chosen as the site for preliminary peace discussion. But it did not take long for the world to realize that the Paris Peace talks were a propaganda forum for Hanoi and that no substantive results were likely to emerge. The South Vietnamese government, at the same time, would not accept a settlement of the war that called for the establishment of a coalition government in Saigon. And in February 1969, the Viet Cong launched a second Tet Offensive, but it was not as effective as the first and was turned back by U.S. and South Vietnamese troops in quick order.