Vietnamese Ambassador to the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Duong Van Quang has emphasised the historical significance of the Paris Peace Accords and French people’s support for the victory in a recent interview with the Vietnam News Agency.
The interview took place on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Paris Peace Accords, which ended the war and restored peace in Vietnam. Quang said it was a decisive moment for subsequent events.
The Accords mustered the strategic, military, political and diplomatic conditions for the 1975 Spring General Offensive and Uprising, he said.
According to Quang, Vietnam was creative and knew how to create a front of diplomacy during the anti-US war. Vietnamese diplomacy contributed to ending the war in the most favourable way.
He stressed that the Paris Peace Accords were extremely important as the document included provisions relating to politics, political forces, general elections and the establishment of the administrative structure in South Vietnam.
The Accords created the basis for Vietnam to conclude its struggle for national liberation, he said.
According to the ambassador, Vietnam succeeded in gathering all socialist forces to support its struggle, and created a world people’s front against the unjust US invasion.
This was the creativity of the Vietnamese diplomacy, and the role of people-to-people diplomacy at that time was extremely important, he stressed.
He said that during the negotiations, Vietnam received great support from French friends, especially the Communist Party of France (PCF), and the Vietnamese community in France.
In addition to material assistance, the PCF played an active role in assembling political forces and people in France to support Vietnam’s resistance war and protest against the US invasion, he added.
Source: VNA