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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 36, Number 1. 28th February 1973

Reunification of Vietnam

Reunification of Vietnam

Article 15 of the Agreement states that: "The reunification of Vietnam shall be carried out step by step through peaceful means on the basis of discussions and agreements between North and South Vietnam, without coercion or annexation by either party, and without foreign interference". Pending reunification, the military demarcation line between the North and South at the 17th Parallel "is only provisional and not a political or territorial boundary" as was provided by the 1954 Geneva Conference on Vietnam.. North and South Vietnam will promptly start negotiations on re-establishing normal relations in various fields. As stipulated in the 1954 Geneva Agreements on Vietnam, neither North or South shall join any military alliance or allow foreign bases or troops on their territories. Once again this article shows how much ground the Americans have conceded politically in the Agreement.

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Recognition that Vietnam was one country only temporarily divided, was one of the fundamental points of the 1954 Geneva Agreements. Over the years, the U.S. and their various hirelings in Saigon consistently refused to recognise that Vietnam was one country only provisionally divided into two regrouping zones. But now they have reversed even their 1954 position.