1954 Geneva Conference moving South". At the same time, 52,000 people from the South went North, mostly Viet Minh members and their families. The US replaced the French as a political backup for Ngo Dinh Diem, the Prime Minister of the State of Vietnam, who asserted his power in the South. The Geneva conference had not provided any specific mechanisms for the national elections planned for 1956, and Diem refused to hold them by citing that the South had not signed and were not bound to the Geneva Accords and that it was impossible to hold free elections in the communist North. Instead,
Geneva Agreement (1966) Guyana" (and since 1970 "Cooperative Republic of Guyana"), date from which the new State becomes part of the agreement as a sovereign and independent country along with the United Kingdom and Venezuela, although it totally substitutes the United Kingdom in the coversations with Venezuela regarding the boderline disagreement The Geneva Agreement is a transitory agreement to come to a definitive solution, many define it as an "agreement to reach an agreement" and although in the Venezuelan interpretation invalidates the 1899 award, the "status quo" that it derived is maintained. Therefore, the area under complaint is under the authority of the