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'''Xuân Thuỷ''' (c. 1912 – [[June 20]], [[1985]]) was a [[North Vietnam|North Vietnamese]] political figure. He was the Foreign Minister of North Vietnam from 1963 to 1965 and then chief negotiator of the North Vietnamese at the [[Paris Peace Accords|Paris Peace talks]], which ended the [[Vietnam War]] in 1973. |
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Thuỷ was born in the [[Ha Dong]] province in Northern Vietnam in 1912. His name means "spring water". He was educated at a French school in [[Hanoi]]. Becoming interested in nationalist politics in his early teens, the fourteen-year old Thuỷ entered the [[Revolutionary Youth League]] of the communist leader [[Ho Chi Minh]].<ref name="XT">{{cite web |title=Xuan Thuy: Abrasive Advocate |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,902167,00.html |publisher= [[Time Magazine]] |date=1968-05-10 |accessdate=2008-06-12}}</ref> At sixteen, he was arrested for the first time. When he was eighteen, he was sent to the [[penal colony]] on [[Con Son Island]] in the [[South China Sea]].<ref name="XT">{{cite web |title=Xuan Thuy: Abrasive Advocate |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,902167,00.html |publisher= [[Time Magazine]] |date=1968-05-10 |accessdate=2008-06-12}}</ref> Two further jail terms followed. In 1938, Thuỷ became a member of the [[Indochina Communist Party]]. After the outbreak of the [[Second World War]] in 1939, he was imprisoned in [[Sonla]] being held there for six years until the end of the war in 1945. However, he used his internment to edit the underground communist newspaper ''[[Suoi Reo]]''. |
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After his release, Thuỷ became the editor and director of the newspaper ''[[Cuu Quoc]]'', the official organ of the [[Viet Minh]] national liberation movement formed by Ho Chi Minh in 1941 in opposition to both French and Japanese control over the country. In 1946, he then became a member of the [[National Assembly of Vietnam|National Assembly]] of the just-proclaimed Democratic Republic of Vietnam. The Assembly was started by the Viet Minh as a vehicle of resistance against [[French Indochina|French colonial rule]] in what would become the [[First Indochina War]]. Speaking both [[French language|French]] and [[Chinese language|Chinese]] fluently and known as an expert in [[agitprop]], Thuỷ traveled both Asia and Europe visiting [[Vienna]], [[Stockholm]], [[Rangoon]], [[Beijing]], and [[Moscow]] in 1950 to gather support for the North Vietnamese cause. In 1961 and 1962, he attended the [[Geneva Conference on Laos]] as the deputy chairman of the Vietnamese delegation. An American diplomat at the meeting described him as "a top-drawer negotiator, a dreadful fellow to face across the table day after day." In 1963, he then became [[Foreign Minister]] of Vietnam. However, in 1965 he had to step down. Thuỷ's health was cited as the reason for his resignation, yet his losing a power struggle, in which he supported a pro-Soviet line, is the more likely cause. His successor was [[Nguyen Duy Trinh]], an avowed supporter of China in the [[Sino-Soviet split]]. Thuỷ then fell out of favor with the ruling party, but he returned to the political scene in 1968, as North Vietnam's chief diplomat at the [[Paris Peace Accords|Paris peace talks]]. These meetings finally led to American withdrawal from the country and the end of the [[Vietnam War]] in 1973. He was known to use long tirades to test the American negotiators' endurance during the meetings. He was also made Vice-Chairman of North Vietnam's National Assembly, a position he retained until his death. |
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Xuân Thuỷ is known to have been married with children, but how many and whether they are still alive was kept secret. |
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Thuỷ died of [[heart failure]] in [[Hanoi]] on [[June 20]], 1985. |
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==Notes== |
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==References== |
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*"Xuan Thuy, Hanoi Envoy at Paris Talks, Dies". ''New York Times''. June 20, 1985. |
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*"[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,902167,00.html Xuan Thuy: Abrasive Advocate]". ''Time''. May. 10, 1968. |
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*"Xuan Thuy; Negotiator for Hanoi at Paris Peace Talks". ''Los Angeles Times''. June 30, 1985. |
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[[Category:People of the Vietnam War]] |
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[[Category:Vietnamese communists]] |
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[[Category:Foreign ministers]] |
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