VietNamNet Bridge – On the morning of January 23, at the Hanoi Exhibition House, 29 Hang Bai, the exhibition "Celebrating 40 years of the date of signing the Paris Agreement on Vietnam" opened.

The ceremony was attended by Vice President Nguyen Thi Binh, former head of the delegation of the Provisional Revolutionary Government at the Paris conference, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Huynh Vinh Ai and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs--Nguyen Phuong Nga.

On display are many precious photos and memorabilia about negotiations between Vietnam and the U.S. and the sideline activities of Vietnam in the war of resistance to defense the country.

With 140 photos, 21 citations, 23 exhibits, three documents, 8 books, including the valuable artifacts on display for the first time in the last 40 years, such as the original text of the Paris treaty, this is the largest ever exhibition on the Paris Agreement in Vietnam.

The Agreement is a great event, a glorious victory in the struggle for national liberation of the Vietnamese people and is the culmination of Vietnam’s diplomacy in the Ho Chi Minh era.

The exhibition revives the images and events of the fierce years of the struggling that combined the political, military and diplomatic factors. It is also the most obvious evidence for the tough fight on the diplomatic front that lasted 4 years, 8 months and 16 days, with hundreds of public and secret meetings, to sign the Paris Agreement (27/01/1973), forcing the U.S. and other imperialists, colonialists to admit the independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of Vietnam.

01/27/1973 went into the Vietnamese national history as a milestone with the signing of the "Agreement on ending the war and restoring peace in Vietnam" in Paris, France. Under the agreement, the United States had to recognize the independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of Vietnam, to withdraw all U.S. and allied troops out of Vietnam, creating a turning point in the struggle of the Vietnamese people leading to the liberation of the South in 1975, to unify the country.
 
Precious photos of the Paris Agreement:

Minister Xuan Thuy and special adviser Le Duc Tho leaving a private meeting at the site of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam delegation at No. 11, Darthe Street.

A ping-pong match between Ms. Duong Thi Duyen and Ms. Nguyen Thi Binh in Paris

Special Adviser Le Duc Tho at an international press conference.

Special Adviser Le Duc Tho with a winning smile at the Paris Conference

Overview of the Paris conference on ending the war in Vietnam

The objects that were used at the signing of the Paris Agreement

Former Vice President Nguyen Thi Binh (middle), a witness of the historical Paris Conference was present at the exhibition.

Two seals of the Vietnamese People's Army delegation and the Demilitarized Zone Joint Commission.

One of the two pens used to sign the Paris Agreement in 1973.

The “Agreement ending the war and restoring peace in Vietnam” is still relatively new, and displayed for the first time.

The notebook with signatures of the Cuban people supporting the Vietnamese people in the struggle for national independence and unification.

Signature of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of 12 countries in the Convention of the International Conference on Vietnam in Paris (02/03/1973).

Diplomat Pham Ngac, who was present in the signing of the Paris Agreement was present and was very moved when he looked at the exhibits of a hard time.

After the 1968 Spring uprising, the anti-Vietnam War movement rose highly. In this picture, an American girl putting flowers in the gun of a national guard soldier as a symbol of wishing for peace in Vietnam.

To go to the signing of the 1973 Paris Peace Agreement, the parties must enter into negotiations for years. In the photo, Minister Xuan Thuy spoke at the Bourgert airport when going there for negotiation with the United States (05/09/1968).

Representatives of four parties including the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam, the United States and the Republic of Vietnam signed the Paris Agreement (27.01.1973).

Deputy Minister Nguyen Co Thach shook hands with Ambassador William Sullivan (two key diplomats who were responsible for the text of the Agreement and the procedures for signing of the Paris Agreement). The second from left is Mr Le Duc Tho.

The delegation of the Vietnamese Democratic Republic in the Four-party Joint Military Central Commission.

Compiled by P. Linh