Ho–Sainteny agreement
The Ho–Sainteny agreement, officially the Accord Between France and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, known in Vietnamese as Hiệp định sơ bộ Pháp-Việt, was a preliminary treaty made on 6 March 1946, between Ho Chi Minh, a de facto communist and the President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV), and Jean Sainteny, Special Envoy of France. It recognized Vietnam as only a non-unified and free country within the French Union, and permitted France to continue stationing troops in North Vietnam.[1][2] Tonkin and Annam were still two protectorates within Vietnam, and Cochinchina was still not part of Vietnam. Regarding the merger of all three into a unified Vietnam, the French Government committed to recognizing that the people's decisions would directly judge this.[3] Although the First Indochina War between the two countries broke out on 19 December 1946, legally the agreement was still valid until the Vịnh Hạ Long Preliminary Treaty on 5 June 1948 between France and Vietnamese anti-communists, leading to the establishment of the State of Vietnam in 1949 as an independent and unified country within the French Union.
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Why Vietnam, Archimedes L.A Patti, Nhà xuất bản Đà Nẵng, 2008, trang 622
- ^ Howard Zinn, ed., "Accord Between France and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam on 6 March 1946," in The Pentagon Papers, by Mike Gravel, Gravel, vol. 1 (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1971), 18–19, www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon/int2.htm Archived 2021-01-25 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Hồ Chí Minh. Toàn tập. Tập 4. Nhà xuất bản Chính trị Quốc gia. 2000. trang 324–326
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