Activist Cora Weiss in an interview granted to the Vietnam News Agency (Source: VNA)She told the Vietnam News Agency that the Paris PeaceAccords, signed on January 27, 1973, helps give the US administration a way out from a 10-year illegitimate and unjust war in which millions of Vietnamese and tensof thousands of American soldiers were killed or exposed to Agent Orange.
The agreement helped put an end to this and paved the way forending the war and restoring peace in Vietnam, she noted.
During the years of negotiations, the movement rose to the strongest-ever level. From 1969, thousands took to the streets in Washington D.C. to oppose the war. The number ofparticipants in anti-war campaigns continually increased, and protests against theUS involvement in the war kept spreading to many other cities,including New York, Weiss recounted.
The delegation of the Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam at the Paris conference on May 13, 1968 (Photo: VNA)He also emphasised the historical significance of thisagreement to all the parties concerned.
Cora Weiss, born in 1934, has been well-known as a peaceactivist since the early 1960s and was a leader of Women Strike for Peace. She haswon many prizes and been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for several times.
In 1968, she established the Committee of Liaison withFamilies of Servicemen Detained in North Vietnam (COLIAFAM), a charityorganisation helping resolve one of the conditions for ending the USinvolvement in Vietnam. This committee operated for about four years, until theParis Peace Accords were inked.
After 1975, when the South was liberated and Vietnam reunified, she has continued working to assist the country./.
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