ICCS take up positions
Supervisors from the International Commission of Control and Supervision (ICCS) delegated to oversee the cease-fire start to take up their positions.The cease-fire had gone into effect as a provision of the Paris Peace Accords.The ICCS included representatives from Canada Poland Hungary and Indonesia and was supposed to supervise the cease-fire.However the ICCS had no enforcement powers and had extreme difficulty in settling the many quarrels that quickly arose.
In the end the ICCS proved incapable of enforcing the provisions of the Accords and was largely ineffectual.Consequently renewed fighting between the South and North Vietnamese broke out after only a brief lull and continued for the next two years until the North Vietnamese successfully launched their final offensive in 1975 and South Vietnam surrendered.
