ABSTRACT
The Geneva Agreements on Indochina comprise a set of accords which were intended to restore peace and confirm the sovereign independence of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. They were concluded at an international conference between 8 May and 21 July in Geneva. Indochina had been subject to violent conflict from the end of the Pacific War when the Viet Minh took the lead in challenging the restoration of French colonial rule throughout the peninsula in the August Revolution 1945. The Final Declaration of the Conference, which was not a signed document, encompassed provisions for cease-fire and political order for all three countries, spelling out their political and electoral obligations and the role of international supervision. On 23 July 1962 an international conference in Geneva attended by fourteen governments reached agreements on political unity and neutralization for Laos. The earlier Geneva Agreements on Indochina of July 1954 had failed to bring peace to the country.
