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Canada did not fight in the Vietnam War and diplomatically it was "officially non-belligerent".〔(【引用サイトリンク】''Quiet Complicity: Canadian Involvement in the Vietnam War'', by Victor Levant (1986). )〕 The country's troop deployments to Vietnam were limited to a small number of national forces in 1973 to help enforce the Paris Peace Accords. Nevertheless, the war had considerable effects on Canada, while Canada and Canadians affected the war, in return. == Beginnings == During the First Indochina War between France and the Indo-Chinese nationalist and communist parties, Canada remained militarily uninvolved but provided modest diplomatic and economic support to the French. Canada was, however, part of the International Control Commission (along with Poland and India) that oversaw the 1954 Geneva Agreements that divided Vietnam, provided for French withdrawal and would have instituted elections for reunification by 1956. Behind the scenes, Canadian diplomats tried to discourage both France and the United States from escalating the conflict in a part of the world Canadians had decided was not strategically vital. Canada laid out six prerequisites to joining a war effort or Asian alliance like SEATO: # It had to involve cultural and trade ties in addition to a military alliance. # It had to demonstrably meet the will of the people in the countries involved. # Other free Asian states had to support it directly or in principle. # France had to refer the conflict to United Nations. # Any multilateral action must conform to the UN charter. # Any action had to be divorced from all elements of colonialism. These criteria effectively guaranteed Canada would not participate in the Vietnam War. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Canada and the Vietnam War」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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