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The accords, which were issued on 21 July 1954 (taking effect two days later), [21] set out the following terms in relation to Vietnam: a "provisional military demarcation line" running approximately along the 17th Parallel "on either side of which the forces of the two parties shall be regrouped after their withdrawal".
A facsimile of the signature-and-seals page of The 1864 Geneva Convention, which established humane rules of war. The original document in single pages, 1864 [1]. The Geneva Conventions are international humanitarian laws consisting of four treaties and three additional protocols that establish international legal standards for humanitarian treatment in war.
A map of North and South Vietnam after the Geneva Accords of 1954. Ho Chi Minh, President of North Vietnam. In a last ditch effort to defeat the Viet Minh, the French had fortified a remote outpost in northwestern Vietnam named Điện Biên Phủ with the objective of inducing the Viet Minh to attack and then utilizing superior French ...
1954 1991 1991 2009 1992 Portugal: 1961 1992 1992 2014 1994 Qatar: 1975 1988 2005 — 1991 Romania: 1954 1990 1990 2015 1995 Russia: 1954 1989 1989 S 1989: Conventions I–IV and Protocols I and II ratified as the Soviet Union. Declaration under Article 90 of Protocol 1 withdrawn in 2019. [34] [35] Rwanda: 1964 1984 1984 — 1993 Saint Kitts ...
Geneva Accord (1991), a peace plan in the Croatian War of Independence; Geneva Accords (1988), a settlement that concerned Afghanistan; Geneva Accords (1954), a plan concerning Indochina and Vietnam; German-Polish Accord on East Silesia (Geneva Accord 1922), a bilateral treaty between Germany and Poland on the division of Silesia
The International Control Commission (abbreviated ICC; French: Commission Internationale de Contrôle, or CIC), was an international force established in 1954. [3] More formally called the International Commission for Supervision and Control, the organisation was actually organised as three separate but interconnected bodies, one for each territory within the former French Indochina, being ...
The 1954 to 1959 phase of the Vietnam War was the era of the two nations. Coming after the First Indochina War, this period resulted in the military defeat of the French, a 1954 Geneva meeting that partitioned Vietnam into North and South, and the French withdrawal from Vietnam (see First Indochina War), leaving the Republic of Vietnam regime fighting a communist insurgency with USA aid.
As a result of peace accords worked out at the Geneva Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, Vietnam was divided into North Vietnam and South Vietnam at the 17th Parallel as a temporary measure until unifying elections could take place in 1956. Transfer of civil administration of North Vietnam to the Viet Minh was given on 11 October 1954.