Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
Event
| Description
| Outcome
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Second Ha Long Bay Agreement, 5 June 1948
| - France solemnly recognizes the independence of Vietnam within the French Union.
- Bao Dai reassociates himself with the attempt to form a nationalist government.
| - France transferred no significant political power to Vietnamese.
- Led only to further negotiations between Bao Dai and France.
|
Elysee Agreement, 8 March 1949
| In an exchange of letters between Bao Dai and President Auriol, France:- Reconfirms Vietnam's status as an independent Associated State within the French Union.
- Agrees to unifying Vietnam, and placing it under Vietnamese administration, under terms to be negotiated subsequently.
- Retains control of Vietnamese armed forces and foreign relations.
| - French economic and political primacy remained unchanged, even in principle.
- Cochinchina formally merged with Annam and Tonkin in State of Vietnam in June, 1949.
- Plans for internal administrative transfer announced 30 December 1949.
- Practical matters of transfer of administrative functions in principal external affairs were deferred to Pau Negotiations of 1950.
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Recognition of the Independence of the State of Vietnam, 14 June 1949
| French High Commissioner for Indochina and Emperor Bao Dai exchange letters in Saigon formalizing Elysee Agreement.
| - Cochinchina government tendered resignation to Bao Dai, merging in principle with new State of Vietnam.
- No actual transfer of political power occurred.
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A-40
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