The Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam (also, "Paris Accords") arranged a settlement which ended direct military involvement by the United States and resulted in a temporary ceasefire, the end of the Vietnam War occurring two years later. The agreement was reached at the end of the Paris Peace Accords on January 27, 1973. Like the Geneva Agreements, it mandated "free and democratic general elections under international supervision." Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho were awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts as primary negotiators of the Agreement. Tho refused to accept it. America's withdrawal brought an end to foreign involvement in the country of Vietnam for the first time in 114 years, since the first incursions by the French in 1858.
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