Nguyễn Cơ Thạch

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Nguyễn Cơ Thạch (1976)

Nguyễn Cơ Thạch (born May 15, 1921 in Vụ Bản , Nam Định Province , French Indochina as Phạm Văn Cương ; † April 10, 1998 in Hanoi ) was a Vietnamese politician of the Communist Party of Vietnam KPV (Đảng Cộng sản Việt Nam) , who, among other things, was Foreign Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam from 1980 to 1991 and also Vice Prime Minister between 1987 and 1991.

His son Phạm Bình Minh has also been the country's foreign minister since 2011.

Life

Nguyễn Cơ Thạch joined the underground communist movement Việt Minh in 1937 at the age of 16 to fight against the French colonial power in French Indochina . Because of these activities he was arrested in the early 1940s and was subsequently imprisoned. After his release he became involved again in the Việt Minh and was lieutenant colonel at the time of the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ from March 13 to May 8, 1954. The victory of the Việt Minh paved the way for a negotiated solution to the conflict, the division of Vietnam and the End of French Indochina at the Indochina Conference in Geneva . He then joined the Foreign Ministry and was initially head of the office of Foreign Minister Phạm Văn Đồng from 1954 to 1956 and then Consul General in India between 1956 and 1960 .

After his return, Nguyễn Cơ Thạch became Deputy Foreign Minister in August 1960 and held this position until May 1979. As such, he was Deputy Head of the North Vietnamese Delegation at the Geneva Laos Conference from 1961 to 1962 and since 1964 responsible for relations with the United Nations . He was later assistant to Lê Đức Thọ , the chief negotiator of North Vietnam in the negotiations on the agreement on the end of the war and the restoration of peace in Vietnam , which was signed on January 27, 1973 and regulated the US withdrawal from the Vietnam War . After the end of the war on May 1, 1975, which ultimately ended with a victory for North Vietnam, and the unification with South Vietnam to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam on July 2, 1976, he met with US officials in New York City in 1978 to normalize the To discuss relations between the two countries in the hope of reducing dependence on the Soviet Union . However, the humiliation of the United States by the defeat and Vietnam's demands for war indemnity hampered these early recordings of talks to establish diplomatic relations.

After serving as State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from May 1979, Nguyễn Cơ Th wurdech finally succeeded Nguyễn Duy Trinh in February 1980 as Foreign Minister of Vietnam and held this post for eleven years until he was replaced by Nguyễn Mạnh C.m in July 1991. Party congress (March 27 - 31, 1982) he was first a candidate and on the following VI. Party Congress (December 15-18, 1986) and finally a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee (ZK) of the Communist Party of Vietnam KPV (Đảng Cộng sản Việt Nam) . On February 16, 1987, he also became Vice Prime Minister of Vietnam and held this office until September 10, 1991. His time as foreign minister was marked by Vietnam's attempts to escape international isolation after the Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia between 1979 and 1989 . In 1990 he met US Secretary of State James Baker in New York City , which was the highest-ranking bilateral contact between the two states since 1973. However, the US continued to reject diplomatic relations. In addition, his influence within the Vietnamese government declined after failing to provide sufficient information to the government of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe to prepare Vietnam for an abrupt end to Soviet aid. At the VII Party Congress (June 24-27, 1991) he therefore lost his membership in the Central Committee's Politburo.

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SURNAME Nguyễn Cơ Thạch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Vietnamese politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Vụ Bản , Nam Định Province , French Indochina , today: Vietnam
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1998
Place of death Hanoi