In order to leave aside any idea that the division is permanent, an unsigned final declaration, Article 6 states that “the Conference recognizes that the essential objective of the Vietnam Agreement is to resolve military issues with a view to ending hostilities, and that the military demarcation line is provisional and should not be construed as a political or territorial border.” [21] 1. The Geneva Conventions refer to a series of agreements on the future of Vietnam. They were developed during multilateral discussions in Geneva between March and July 1954. 3. Under the Geneva Conventions, Vietnam was divided at the 17th parallel for a period of two years. Free elections were scheduled in July 1956 to decide the reunified government of Vietnam. Despite the length of these documents, they were found to be incomplete over time. Indeed, the nature of armed conflict had changed at the beginning of the Cold War era, leading many to believe that the 1949 Geneva Conventions were addressing a largely extinct reality:[19] On the one hand, most armed conflicts had become internal or civil civil wars, while most wars had become increasingly asymmetrical. In addition, modern armed conflicts increasingly demanded the civilian population, which paid increasing tribute to the need to provide tangible protection for civilians and objects during the struggle period, leading to an urgent update of the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. In light of these developments, two protocols were adopted in 1977, which extended the provisions of the 1949 conventions to additional safeguards. In 2005, a third brief protocol was added, establishing an additional sign of protection for medical services, the Red Crystal, as an alternative to the ubiquitous Red Cross and Red Crescent emblems for countries they consider offensive. Diplomats from South Korea, North Korea, the People`s Republic of China (PRC), the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the United States of America discussed the Korean side of the conference. For Indochina, the agreements were concluded between France, Viet Minh, the USSR, the PRC, the United States, the United Kingdom and the future states of French Indochina.

[4] The agreement temporarily separated Vietnam into two zones, a northern area to be ruled by Viet Minh and a southern area to be ruled by the State of Vietnam and then under the leadership of former Emperor Beo II. A final declaration of the conference, issued by the British President of the Conference, called for parliamentary elections to be held for the creation of a single Vietnamese state until July 1956. Although they helped create the agreements, they were not signed directly or accepted by delegates from the state of Vietnam and the United States, and the State of Vietnam refused to allow elections, which led to the Vietnam War the following year. The conference signed three separate ceasefire agreements on Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. A few days later, the plenary of the Vietnamese Communist Party took place. Ho-Chi-Minh and Secretary General Tréng Chinh took turns stressing the need for a quick political solution to prevent military intervention by the United States, which is now Vietnam`s “main and direct enemy.” “In this new situation, we cannot follow the old program,” Ho said. “Our motto was: “The war of resistance to victory.” Faced with this new situation, we should now adopt a new slogan: peace, unification, independence and democracy. Both sides must compromise in order for the negotiations to succeed and there can no longer be any question of the extermination and destruction of all French troops. A demarcation line allowing the temporary consolidation of the two parties would be necessary… The plenary approved Hos` analysis and adopted a resolution supporting a compromise solution to end the fighting.