UN Secretariat Item Scan - Barcode - Record Title Page 105 Date 26/06/2006 Time 2:45:22 PM S-0901-0004-05-00001 Expanded Number S-0901 -0004-05-00001 Title items-in-[Vietnam] - International Conference on [Vietnam] - lists of delegates, UN staff, French officials (file of Ms. Kate Newell - Secretary-General's secretary) Dafe Created 06/07/1972 Record Type Archival Item Container s-0901-0004: Vietnam and Indo-China 1972-1981 Print Name of Person Submit Image Signature of Person Submit Official list: Foreign Minister THAN VAN LAM Ambassador PHAM DANG LAM Mr. NGUYEN XUAN PHONG Ambassador PHAN VAN THINK Minister Counselor NGUYEN PHU"C?NG THIEP Minister Counselor NGUYEN TRIEU DAN Counselor TRAN VAN DON Adviser to the Delegation (does not figure on official list) Former Foreign Minister TRAN CHANH THANH / i&ginn uf (Emin&u tu tire ;Hmf.ed ^ ^Icrmuttenfr ftu (Sanaim uuprr.s' d^ SCnKuttjs' The Canadian Delegation to the International Conference on Viet Nam The Honourable Mitchell Sharp, Secretary of State for External Affairs Mr. R. E. Collins, Assistant Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs, Alternate and Deputy Head of Delegation Mr. R. D. Jackson Deputy Alternate Head Brigadier General R.G. Christie Senior Military Adviser Mr. G.L. Hearn Minister, Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations Mr. R. V. Gorham Adviser to the Secretary of State for External Affairs Mr. D. Molgat Senior Political Adviser Mr. R. Gilbert Counsellor, Canadian Embassy, Paris Mr. A.W. Sullivan Legal Adviser Mr. E.A. Skrabec Executive Secretary to the Delegation Mr. C.J. Dagg First Secretary, Canadian Delegation, ICCS, Saigon Lt. Colonel P. Ranger Defence Relations Adviser Mr. J. Lajoie Legal Adviser and Deputy Secretary to the Delegation The Honourable Mitchell Sharp will be staying at the Bristol Hotel and all other members of the Delegation will be accommodated at the Hotel Prince des Galles. The Messmer Cabinet July 6,1972 AMBASSADE DE FRANCE Service de Presse et d'Information 972 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10021 THE MESSMER CABINET JULY 6, 1972 Premier Pierre Messmer Ministers Minister of State for National Defense Michel Debre Minister of State for Social Affairs Edgar Faure Minister of Justice Rene Pleven Minister of Foreign Affairs Maurice Schumann Minister of the Interior Raymond Marcellin Minister of the Economy and Finance Valery Giscard d'Estaing Minister of National Education Joseph Fontanet Minister of Equipment, Housing and Olivier Guichard Regional Development Minister of Cultural Affairs Jacques Duhamel Minister Delegate to the Premier for Robert Boulin Relations with Parliament Minister Delegate to the Premier for Robert Poujade the Protection of Nature and the Environment Minister Delegate to the Minister of Andre Bettencourt Foreign Affairs Minister of Agriculture and Rural Jacques Chirac Development -2- Minister of Industrial and Scientific Jean Charbonnel Development Minister of Public Health Jean Foyer Minister of Transportation Robert Galley Minister of the Post Office and Hubert Germain Telecommunications Minister of Trade and Crafts Yvon Bourges Minister of War Veterans Andre Bord Secretaries of State to the Premier for Civil Service and Information Philippe Malaud for Youth, Sports and Leisure Joseph Comiti Government Spokesman Jean-Philippe Lecat for the Overseas Departments Xavier Deniau and Territories to the Minister of State for Social Affairs Christian Poncelet to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, in Pierre Billecocq charge of Cooperation to the Minister of the Economy and Finance, Jean Taittinger in charge of the Budget to the Minister of Equipment, Housing and Christian Bonnet Regional Development to the Minister of Agriculture and Bernard Pons Rural Development to the Minister of Public Health, in Marie-Madeleine Dienesch charge of Social Action and Rehabilitation -3- Pierre Messmer - Premier. Mr. Messmer was born in Vincennes on March 20, 1916. Ke is a Doctor of Law, holds a diploma from the Ecole des Langues Orientales and is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale de la France d'Outre-Mer. In 1940 he joined the Free French Forces and fought in the African, Italian, French and German campaigns. In 1945 he took command of the French Mission in Calcutta, parachuted into Tonkin and was captured by the Vietminh; he escaped two months later and was demobilized in January 1946. From 1947 to 1948 he directed the staff of the French High Commissioner in Indochina. From 1950 to 1960 Pierre Messmer held several senior posts in what were then French territories in West and Equatorial Africa. He was successively Governor of Mauritania, Governor of the Ivory Coast, then High Commissioner of the Cameroon, of French Equatorial Africa and of French West Africa. Mr. Messmer was Minister of the Armed Forces from February 5, 1960 until June 22, 1969. A member of the UDR*party, he was twice elected Deputy from the Moselle Department. In 1971 he was elected Mayor of Sarrebourg. He is president of the UDR Federal Committee for Moselle and president of the UDR study group for regional reform. He was also president of the "Presence et Action du Gaullisme" association. On February 25, 1971 Mr. Messmer was named Minister of State for the Overseas Departments and Territories in the Chaban-Delmas Cabinet. He retained this post until his appointment as Premier on July 5, 1972. Michel Debre - Minister of State for National Defense. Born in Paris on January 15, 1912, Michel Debre is a Doctor of Law and a graduate of the Paris School of Political Science. In 1934 he became a member of the Council of State. During World War II, after being taken prisoner by the Germans in May 1940, he escaped and later joined the Resistance. In 1945 he joined the staff of General de Gaulle, at that time head of the Provisional Government, and helped draft plans for administrative reform and for creating the National School of Administration. In 1947 he was named Secretary General for German and Austrian Affairs in the Foreign Affairs Ministry. A Senator from 1948 to 1958, he also sat in the Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community and in the European Parliamentary Assembly and has been a substitute member of the Council of. Europe Consultative Assembly. In General de Gaulle's Cabinet,formed in June 1958, he was Minister of Justice and helped draft the reform of the judiciary and the text of the new Constitution. He was also one of the founders of the UKR. On January 8, 1959 he was appointed Premier and The following abbreviations are used in this document: MRP - Popular Republican Movement; RI - Independent Republicans; RPF - Rally of the French People; UDR - Union for the Defense of the Republic; UNR-UDT - Union for the New Republic-Democratic Workers Union; UD-Fifth Republic - Democratic Union for the Fifth Republic: PDM - Progress and Modern Democracy -4- held that post until April 1962. He was elected Deputy from the Overseas Department of Reunion in 1963 on the UNR ticket and retained his seat in the 1967 and 1968 legislative elections. Recalled to the Pompidou Cabinet in January 1966, Michel Debre was named Minister of the Economy and Finance and held that post until his appointment as Minister of Foreign Affairs on May 31, 1968. He retained that portfolio in the Couve de Murville Cabinet which was named on July 12, 1968. Mr. Debre has published various works on political issues. He was appointed Minister of State for National Defense in the Chaban-Delmas Cabinet on June 22, 1969. Edgar Faure - Minister of State for Social Affairs, Mr. Faure was born on August 18, 1908 in Beziers in the Herault Department. He is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale des Langues Orientales and holds a doctorate in law. A lawyer and financial expert, he worked with the French Committee of National Liberation in Algiers during the war. From 1946 to 1958 he represented the Jura Department in the National Assembly and was Vice President of the High Court of Justice. He was appointed Secretary of State for Finance in 1949, Minister of the Budget in 1950 and Minister of Justice in 1951. From January 20 to February 29, 1952 he was Premier and Minister of Finance. From 1954 to 1955 he was Minister of Finance, Economic Affairs and Planning, and he was then Minister of Foreign Affairs for several months. From 1955 to 1956 he was again Premier. In May 1958 he was Minister of Finance, Economic Affairs and Planning in the last cabinet of the Fourth Republic. Mr. Faure was a Senator from the Jura Department from 1959 to January 1966 (elected on the Democratic Left ticket). In 1961 he became an "agrege" in law and was named Professor of Law at the University of Dijon. He fulfilled several important missions for the government, including a trip to China in 1963 that resulted in the resumption of diplomatic relations between France and China. On January 8, 1966 he was named Minister of Agriculture and held that post until July 10, 1968. In the June 1968 elections he was elected Deputy from the Doubs Department on the UDR ticket. Mr. Faure has published a novel and several political and historical works. He was Minister of Education in the Couve de Murville Cabinet from July 12, 1968 to June 20, 1969. He was re-elected Deputy from the Doubs Department in a by-election in October 1969. Rene Pleven - Minister of Justice, Born on April 15, 1901 in Rennes, Brittany, Rene Pleven is a Doctor of Law and a graduate of the Paris School of Political Science. He was among the first to join General de Gaulle in 1940 and was responsible for matters relating to French Equatorial Africa. As Commissioner for the colonies in the French National Liberation Committee, he organized and chaired the Brazzaville Conference in 1944.