Lê Đức Thọ, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Lê Đức Thọ

Vietnamese diplomat

Date of Birth: 14-Oct-1911

Place of Birth: Hà Nam, Vietnam

Date of Death: 13-Oct-1990

Profession: military personnel, politician, diplomat

Nationality: Vietnam

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Lê Đức Thọ

  • Lê Ð?c Th? (Vietnamese: [le ???k t??^?] (listen); 14 October 1911 – 13 October 1990), born Phan Ðình Kh?i in Nam Dinh Province, was a Vietnamese revolutionary, general, diplomat, and politician.
  • He was the first Vietnamese to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (jointly with United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, in 1973), but refused the award. In 1930, Lê Ð?c Th? helped found the Indochinese Communist Party.
  • French colonial authorities imprisoned him from 1930 to 1936 and again from 1939 to 1944.
  • After his release in 1945, he helped lead the Viet Minh, the Vietnamese independence movement, against the French, until the Geneva Accords were signed in 1954.
  • In 1948, he was in South Vietnam as Deputy Secretary, Head of the Organization Department of Cochinchina Committee Party.
  • He then joined the Lao Dong Politburo of the Vietnam Workers' Party in 1955, now the Communist Party of Vietnam.
  • Th? oversaw the Communist insurgency that began in 1956 against the South Vietnamese government.
  • In 1963 Th? supported the purges of the Party surrounding Resolution 9.From 1978 to 1982 Lê Ð?c Th? was named by Hanoi to act as chief advisor to the Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation (FUNSK) and later to the nascent People's Republic of Kampuchea.
  • Lê Ð?c Th?'s mission was to ensure that Khmer nationalism would not override Vietnam's interests in Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge was overthrown.Lê Ð?c Th? was the Standing Member of the Central Committee's Secretariat of the Party from 1982 to 1986 and later became the Advisor of Party's Central Committee.

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