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Event Description Outcome
Second Ha Long Bav e
Agreement, 5 June
France solemnly recognized
the independence of Vietnam
* Ftance t-ansferred
no sig-
1948 within the French Union. nificant polit-
Biical
power to
0 Bao Dai reasscciated himself Vietnamese.,
with the at-empt t3 form a
nationalist government. a Led only to
further negotiations
between
Bao Dai and
France.
E!,see Agreement, In an exchange of letters French P~unomic
8 March 1949 between Bao Dai and President and political
Auriol, France:
primacy remained
*
unchanged, even
Reconfirmed Vietnam's status in principle.
as an independent Associated
State within the French * Cochinch*na
Union.
formally merged
*
with Annam and
Agreed to ,',;ifying Vietnam, Tonkin in State ot
and placing it under Viet-
Vietnam in June,
namese adm-inistration, 1949,
under terms to be negotiated
subsequently. 0 Plans for internal
0
administ-at~ve
Retained control of Viet- transfer announci..d
names- armed forces and 30 December 1949
foreign relations.
0 Practical matters
of transfer of
administrative
functions. In
principle, external
affairs
wer- deferred to
Pau Negotiations
of 1950,
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