The Ho–Sainteny agreement, officially the Accord Between France and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, known in Vietnamese as Hiệp định sơ bộ Pháp-Việt, was a preliminary treaty made on 6 March 1946, between Ho Chi Minh, a de facto communist and the President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV), and Jean Sainteny, Special Envoy of France. It recognized Vietnam as only a non-unified and free country within the French Union, and permitted France to continue stationing troops in North Vietnam.[1][2] Tonkin and Annam were still two protectorates within Vietnam, and Cochinchina was still not part of Vietnam. Regarding the merger of all three into a unified Vietnam, the French Government committed to recognizing that the people's decisions would directly judge this.[3] Although the First Indochina War between the two countries broke out on 19 December 1946, legally the agreement was still valid until France formed the State of Vietnam as an independent and unified country within the French Union to replace the communist DRV on 8 March 1949.
^Why Vietnam, Archimedes L.A Patti, Nhà xuất bản Đà Nẵng, 2008, trang 622
^Howard Zinn, ed., "Accord Between France and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam on 6 March 1946," in The Pentagon Papers, by Mike Gravel, Gravel, vol. 1 (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1971), 18–19, www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon/int2.htmArchived 2021-01-25 at the Wayback Machine.
^Hồ Chí Minh. Toàn tập. Tập 4. Nhà xuất bản Chính trị Quốc gia. 2000. trang 324–326
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