La conférence de Trung Gia (Tonkin), le 4 juillet 1954.

Description : Pour la première fois dans la guerre d’Indochine, un gendarme français et un soldat de l’APVN (Armée Populaire du Viêtnam) côte à côte, lors de la conférence de Trung Gia (Tonkin).

For the first time a French gendarme and a Vietnamese soldier on the same side during the Trung Gia conference.

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Negotiations between France and the Việt Minh started in Geneva in April 1954 at the Geneva Conference, during which time the French Union and the Việt Minh were fighting a battle at Dien Bien Phu. In France, Pierre Mendès-France, opponent of the war since 1950, had been invested as Prime Minister on June 17, 1954, on a promise to put an end to the war, reaching a ceasefire in four months.

The Geneva Conference on July 21, 1954, recognized the 17th parallel as a “provisional military demarcation line” temporarily dividing the country into two zones, Communist North Vietnam and pro-Western South Vietnam.

In parallel, the Trung Gia conference was set to discuss the application of the Geneval Conference decisions, principally about the exchange of prisonners.