Switzerland Indochina Conference, 1954 (b/w photo)

The international delegations with Geneva on 21 July 1954 for the closing session of the Indochina Conference. The conference, which will be held from 26 April to 21 July 1954, will be attended by France and the associated countries of Cambodia, Loas and Vietnam, representatives of the Vietminh, the People's Republic of China, the United Kingdom, the United States and the USSR, all of which are associated with the French Union. The conference decides on a ceasefire in Indochina, loosens Cambodia. Laos and Vietnam from state ties with France; agrees to the withdrawal of the Vietminh groups into a northern zone and establishes a demilitarized zone between them. These decisions led to the political consequence of the division of Vietnam.