Anti-war activist stresses significance of Paris Peace Accords
The Paris Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam, signed 50 years ago, came as a result of stressful and protracted negotiations and held extreme importance, said activist Cora Weiss, one of the leaders of the anti-Vietnam-war movement then.
Activist Cora Weiss in an interview granted to the Vietnam News Agency (Source: VNA)
New York (VNA) – The Paris Agreement on Endingthe War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam, signed 50 years ago, came as a resultof stressful and protracted negotiations and held extreme importance, said activist CoraWeiss, one of the leaders of the anti-Vietnam-war movement then.
She told the Vietnam News Agency that the Paris PeaceAccords, signed on January 27, 1973, helps give the US administration a way out from a 10-year illegitimate and unjust war in which millions of Vietnamese and tensof thousands of American soldiers were killed or exposed to Agent Orange.
The agreement helped put an end to this and paved the way forending the war and restoring peace in Vietnam, she noted.
During the years of negotiations, the movement rose to the strongest-ever level. From 1969, thousands took to the streets in Washington D.C. to oppose the war. The number ofparticipants in anti-war campaigns continually increased, and protests against theUS involvement in the war kept spreading to many other cities,including New York, Weiss recounted.
The delegation of the Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam at the Paris conference on May 13, 1968 (Photo: VNA)
Her husband, Peter Weiss, who was also a famous activist inthe movement, held that the signing of the Paris Peace Accordswas an inevitable result for the US administration then since that war causeddamage to the US in both political and economic terms.
He also emphasised the historical significance of thisagreement to all the parties concerned.
Cora Weiss, born in 1934, has been well-known as a peaceactivist since the early 1960s and was a leader of Women Strike for Peace. She haswon many prizes and been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for several times.
In 1968, she established the Committee of Liaison withFamilies of Servicemen Detained in North Vietnam (COLIAFAM), a charityorganisation helping resolve one of the conditions for ending the USinvolvement in Vietnam. This committee operated for about four years, until theParis Peace Accords were inked.
After 1975, when the South was liberated and Vietnam reunified, she has continued working to assist the country./.
The signing of the Paris Agreement on ending the war and restoring peace in Vietnam on January 27, 1973, was a resounding victory of Vietnam's revolutionary diplomacy in the Ho Chi Minh era, making important contributions to the common victory of the whole nation and, at the same time, leaving invaluable diplomatic lessons.
Lessons drawn from the Paris Peace Accords negotiations, signing and implementation have maintained their values, even in the Party and the State’s foreign policy during the present cause of reform, national development and defence.
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Activist Cora Weiss in an interview granted to the Vietnam News Agency (Source: VNA) 
The delegation of the Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam at the Paris conference on May 13, 1968 (Photo: VNA) 
