 Party General Secretary To Lam presents the title of Labor Hero to former Vice President Nguyen Thi Binh. Photo: Van Hieu/VOV |
The award recognizes Madam Binh’s great contributions to foreign affairs and the revolutionary cause of the Party and the nation.
Nguyen Thi Binh, whose real name is Nguyen Thi Chau Sa, is 98 years old this year. In late 1968, she attended the Paris Conference on ending the war and restoring peace in Vietnam as a representative of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam.
After the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam was established in June 1969, she was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs, and also chief negotiator at the Paris Conference. The Paris Conference was a prolonged negotiation, lasting 4 years, 8 months and 16 days with more than 200 official meetings, 45 private meetings, and 500 press conferences.
Madam Binh, together with advisor Le Duc Tho and Mr. Xuan Thuy, formed a "negotiating trio" that gained world public opinion support at that time. Continuous military victories on the battlefield enabled Vietnamese negotiators to force their opponents to accept the basic terms needed to sign the Paris Agreement on ending the war and restoring peace in Vietnam on January 27, 1973.
