Phan Dinh Khai or Đức Thọ (1911 - 1990) is a Politician, Diplomate and Vietnamese Militaire .

Biography

Born the October 14th 1911 in the province from Nam ha Ninh, in the Center of Vietnam, of a family of well-read men, Phan Dinh Khai, animated Vietnamese patriotism, launches out since 1928 in the anti-colonial clandestine fight, under the name of the Duke Tho , within revolutionary youths, like Vo Nguyen Giap, and becomes one of the founders, with Ho Chi Minh, of the NCV (Indochinese Communist party) in 1930 with HongKong. Like Pham Van Dong and much of others, he is imprisoned by the French for his political activities known as subversive. Tho holds a station raised in the Viêt Minh (League for the independence of Vietnam) and, of 1955 with 1986, he is member of Politburo (Political office) of the Communist party of Vietnam.

Stopped for its revolutionary activities, it is interned during six years with the Bagne de Poulo Condor. Released in 1936 by the government of the Popular front, he is again imprisoned in 1939 with the bagne of his where he côtoie the majority of the future leaders of Vietnam.

After its release, it enters in 1945 to the Central committee of the Communist party, then, in 1951, at the Political office. During the First War of Indo-China, it is, with Duan, the person in charge of resistance in the South of Vietnam.

Starting from 1968, the Duke Tho plays a crucial role in the control of the negotiations with Washington, and remains for the whole world the man who, five years later, signed with Henry Kissinger, the américano-Vietnamese agreements.

The Duke Tho takes part in the preparation and the organization of the generalized offensive leading the April 30th 1975 to the victorious entry with Saigon of the combatants of the National front for the release of Vietnam. At the time of the 6th Congress of the Vietnamese Communist party, with autumn 1986, he resigns of the Political office and is named special adviser of the Central committee with Truong Chinh and Pham Van Dong.

During the Second War of Indo-China known as War of Vietnam (1956 - 1975), the Duke Tho is active in the South of the country, where it directs attacks of the National front for the release of Vietnam for the unit of Vietnam.

From 1968 to 1973, the Duke Tho directs the delegation of the Democratic republic of Vietnam to the peace talks to Paris. He receives the Nobel Prize of peace, with the American Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, for the whole of the negotiations which he directed for the Vietnamese camp; cease-fire with the withdrawal of the American troops. The Duke Tho, however, rejects the price, because according to him: “peace was not really established”. In 1975, the Duke Tho organizes the military offensive against the remainders of the army of the République of Vietnam of Saigon.

The Duke Tho, adviser of the Central committee of the Vietnamese Communist party, dies on October 13rd, 1990, with Hanoï. The winner of the diplomatic battle to the Conference of Paris of 1973 was 79 years old. Suffering from a cancer, he had been hospitalized during several weeks, at the hospital of the Valley-of-Grace where Gaston Plissonnier, secretary of the Central committee of the PCF, had visited him frequent.

See too

External bonds

• Conversation between Chen Yi and Đức Thọ, October 1968

• Declaration of Đức Thọ, with the Conference of Paris, January 1973)
• the fall of Saigon: the main actors