The Paris Peace Agreements (Khmer: សន្ធិសញ្ញាសន្តិភាពទីក្រុងប៉ារីស ឆ្នាំ១៩៩១; French: Accords de paix de Paris), officially the Comprehensive Cambodian Peace Agreements,was signed on 23 October 1991 and marked the official end of the Cambodian–Vietnamese War and the Third Indochina War. The agreement led to the deployment of the first UN peacekeeping mission (the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia) since the Cold War and the first occasion in which the United Nations took over as the government of a state. The agreement was signed by nineteen countries.[1]
Agreements on a Comprehensive Political Settlement of the Cambodia Conflict | |
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Type | Peace treaty |
Context | Cold War |
Signed | 23 October 1991 |
Location | Paris, France |
Signatories | Jean-Bernard Mérimée (Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations) Nugroho Wisnumurti (Deputy Permanent Representative of Indonesia to the United Nations. Chargé d'affaires a.i.) |
Parties | Australia Brunei National Government of Cambodia State of Cambodia Canada China France India Indonesia Japan Laos Malaysia Philippines Singapore Soviet Union Thailand United Kingdom United States Vietnam Yugoslavia |
Languages | Chinese English French Russian |
The Paris Peace Agreements were the following conventions and treaties:
- The Final Act of the Paris Conference on Cambodia
- Agreement on the Political Settlement of the Cambodia Conflict
- Agreement Concerning the Sovereignty, Territorial Integrity and Inviolability, Neutrality and National Unity of Cambodia
- Declaration on the Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of Cambodia[2]
References
edit- ^ "OHCHR | Cambodia - 20 years on from the Paris Peace Agreements". www.ohchr.org. Retrieved December 10, 2018.
- ^ "1991 Paris Peace Agreements - Government, Constitution, National Anthem and Facts of Cambodia Cambodian Information Center". www.cambodia.org. Archived from the original on September 23, 2014. Retrieved March 29, 2019.
External links
edit- Cambodia Information Center, Paris Peace Accord
- U.S. Institute of Peace, Peace Agreements Digital Collection
- UNTAC website
- Cambodia-1991 Paris Peace Agreements Archived November 24, 2021, at the Wayback Machine