Negotiating While Fighting: Peace Initiatives, British Policy and the Vietnam War
FCO
Panel 2 - The Sunflower Peace Initiative
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Chair:
Alex Ellis, Director, Strategy, FCO.
Speakers:
Sylvia Ellis, Reader in History, Northumbria University. John Young, Professor of International History, University of Nottingham. Richard Fyjis-Walker, First Secretary, SE Asia Department during Vietnam War, FCO.
Sir Robert Wade-Gery, First Secretary and Head of Chancery in Saigon (1967-1968).
Participants from the floor:
Sir Brian Crowe, Second Secretary in the Northern European Department, 1965-67; First Secretary for Information in Washington, 1968-73. Tim Dowse, Director, International Cyber Policy, FCO. Sir John Margetson, Speech Writer to Foreign Secretary, Rt Hon. George Brown, MP, 1966– 68; Head of Chancery, Saigon, 1968–70. John Thompson, Former Reader in American History, University of Cambridge. Derek Tonkin, First Secretary and Head of Chancery, Warsaw, 1966-68; Ambassador to Vietnam, 1980–82.
Closing Remarks
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Alex Ellis, Director, Strategy, FCO
9 May 2012
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