Residence at the time of the award:Democratic Republic of Vietnam (now Vietnam)
Prize motivation: “for jointly having negotiated a cease fire in Vietnam in 1973”
Le Duc Tho declined the Nobel Peace Prize.
Prize share: 1/2
Refused the Peace Prize
Le Duc Tho had had long experience of fighting against great powers when he negotiated with Henry Kissinger for an armistice in Vietnam between 1969 and 1973. As a young man he became a Communist, and the French colonial authorities imprisoned him for many years. He gained a place in the Communist Party"s leadership during Japan"s occupation of Vietnam in the Second World War. Ho bỏ ra Minh declared Vietnam independent after the defeat of nhật bản in 1945, but the French returned, and Le Duc Tho became one of the military leaders of the resistance against the French.
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After the defeat of the French, Vietnam was divided. The USA supported a government in South Vietnam which the Communists in the north regarded as an American puppet government. When the United States decided khổng lồ negotiate after 1968, Le Duc Tho was appointed North Vietnam"s chief negotiator, confronting Henry Kissinger.
When Hanoi was bombed at Christmastime on Kissinger"s orders, Le Duc Tho agreed lớn an armistice. But when he received the Peace Prize together with Kissinger in the autumn of 1973, he refused lớn accept it, on the grounds that his opposite number had violated the truce.
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Le Duc Tho, original name Phan Dinh Khai, (born October 14, 1911, nam Ha province, Vietnam—died October 13, 1990, Hanoi), Vietnamese politician who, acting as an adviser lớn North Vietnam, negotiated a cease-fire agreement with U.S. Official Henry Kissinger during the Vietnam War. The two men were jointly awarded the 1973 Nobel Prize for Peace, but Tho declined it.
Le Duc Tho was one of the founders of the Indochinese Communist các buổi tiệc nhỏ in 1930. For his political activities, he was imprisoned by the French in 1930–36 & 1939–44. After his second release he returned khổng lồ Hanoi in 1945 và helped lead the Viet Minh, the Vietnamese independence organization, as well as a revived communist party called the Vietnam Workers’ Party. He was the senior Viet Minh official in southern Vietnam until the Geneva Accords of 1954. From 1955 he was a thành viên of the Politburo of the Vietnam Workers’ Party, or the Communist các buổi party of Vietnam, as it was renamed in 1976. During the Vietnam War (1955–75) Tho oversaw the Viet Cong insurgency that began against the South Vietnamese government in the late 1950s. He carried out most of his duties during the war while in hiding in South Vietnam.
Tho is best known for his part in the cease-fire of 1973, when he served as special adviser to lớn the North Vietnamese delegation to the Paris Peace Conferences in 1968–73. He eventually became his delegation’s principal spokesman, in which capacity he negotiated with Kissinger, the U.S. National security adviser, the cease-fire agreement that led to lớn the withdrawal of the last American troops from South Vietnam. It was for this accomplishment that he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Tho oversaw the North Vietnamese offensive that overthrew the South Vietnamese government in 1975, & he played a similar role in the first stages of Vietnam’s invasion of Cambodia in 1978. He remained a thành viên of the Politburo until 1986.
