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== Nobel Peace Prize == Thọ and [[Henry Kissinger]] were jointly awarded the [[1973 Nobel Peace Prize]] for their efforts in negotiating the [[Paris Peace Accords]].<ref>{{cite web | title =The Nobel Peace Prize 1973 | publisher =Nobel Foundation | url =http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1973/press.html | access-date =31 December 2006 }}</ref> However, Thọ declined to accept the award, claiming that peace had not yet been established, and that the United States and the South Vietnamese governments were in violation of the Paris Peace Accords: {{blockquote|However, since the signing of the Paris agreement, the United States and the Saigon administration continue in grave violation of a number of key clauses of this agreement. The Saigon administration, aided and encouraged by the United States, continues its acts of war. Peace has not yet really been established in South Vietnam. In these circumstances it is impossible for me to accept the 1973 Nobel Prize for Peace which the committee has bestowed on me. Once the Paris accord on Vietnam is respected, the arms are silenced and a real peace is established in South Vietnam, I will be able to consider accepting this prize. With my thanks to the Nobel Prize Committee please accept, madame, my sincere respects.<ref>{{cite news|last=Lewis |first=Flora |title=Tho Rejects Nobel Prize, Citing Vietnam Situation |url=http://www.blackandwhitecat.org/2010/12/11/why-le-duc-tho-refused-his-nobel-peace-prize/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110101172147/http://www.blackandwhitecat.org/2010/12/11/why-le-duc-tho-refused-his-nobel-peace-prize/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=1 January 2011 |access-date=30 June 2013 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=24 October 1973 }}</ref>}} In an interview by the [[United Press International|UPI]], Thọ also explained for his decision: {{blockquote|Unfortunately, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee put the aggressor and the victim of aggression on the same par. ... That was a blunder. The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the greatest prizes in the world. But the United States conducted a war of aggression against Vietnam. It is we, the Vietnamese people, who made peace by defeating the American war of aggression against us, by regaining our independence and freedom.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/12/17/Personality-Spotlight-Le-Duc-Tho-Vietnams-poet-revolutionary/1693535179600/ | title=Personality Spotlight: Le Duc Tho: Vietnam's poet-revolutionary - UPI Archives }}</ref>}}
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