Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
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Geneva Conference Declarations of GVN
| Note | Date | On Partition | On Elections |
| 2 | 12 May 54 | Geneva Conference "must not lead to partition, either direct or indirect, final or provisional, de facto or de jure, of the national territory." | Elections can be held "as soon as the [UN] Security Council has decided that the authority of the State has been established in the whole of the territory, and that conditions of freedom have been obtained..." |
| 3 | 25 May 54 | State of Vietnam "would not agree to any plan which would result in the partition of Vietnam." Partition involved "grave danger." | |
| 4 | 27 May 54 | "...The Vietnam delegation wished to warn the Conference against measures tending to divide the national territory. If a division of Vietnam were to be sanctioned, the result would not be peace, but a pause before fresh hostilities: There was no example of a country torn physically apart which had not endeavored to recover its unity and its historic frontiers. Partition would therefore mean sooner or later — probably sooner — a renewal of war." | |
| 5 | 29 May 54 | "We do believe that there are certain principles which should guide us. Among these principles is the political and territorial integrity of the Vietnamese country. When it was agreed that representatives of Vietnam should attend this conference, it is obvious that one could not ignore the consequences of this attendance. It is impossible for a people to accept of its own free will a mutilation of its country... No Vietnamese patriot could accept partition." | |
| 6 | 10 Jun 54 | "The delegation of the State of Vietnam...had the honor to propose...elections;...whereas the Delegation of Viet Minh proposed that there should be no international supervision which, in |
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