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The '''International Control Commission''' ('''ICC'''), or in French la '''Commission Internationale de Contrôle''' ('''CIC'''), was an international force established in 1954.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vzZu1JDE5-sC&q=CIC+Vietnam+aircraft+commission+internationale+de+controle&pg=PA266|title=Into the Fray: How NBC's Washington Documentary Unit Reinvented the News|first=Tom|last=Mascaro|date=September 30, 2012|publisher=Potomac Books, Inc.|isbn=9781597975575|via=Google Books}}</ref> More formally called the '''International Commission for Supervision and Control''', the organisation was actually organised as three separate but interconnected bodies, one for each territory with Vietnam, being treated as a single state having two temporary administrations: the ICSC for Vietnam; the ICSC for Laos; and the ICSC for Cambodia.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-boaAAAAQBAJ&q=ICSC+ICC+Laos+Canadian+Commissioner&pg=PA180|title=Historical Dictionary of United States-Southeast Asia Relations|isbn=9780810864054|last1=Weatherbee|first1=Donald E.|date=23 April 2008}}</ref>

*1954-1955: [[Sherwood Lett]], [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]], [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]], [[Military Cross|MC]] (1895-1964)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://w05.international.gc.ca/headsofpost/Results-Resultats.aspx?lang=eng&prsn=871|title=Lett, Sherwood : Post(s)|first=Global Affairs|last=Canada|date=June 5, 2014|website=w05.international.gc.ca}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/canadian-delegation-reception-sherwood-lett-giving-speech|title=Canadian delegation reception, Sherwood Lett giving a speech - City of Vancouver Archives|website=searcharchives.vancouver.ca}}</ref>

*1955-1956: [[David Moffat Johnson|David Johnson]] (1902-1973)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://w05.international.gc.ca/headsofpost/Results-Resultats.aspx?lang=eng&prsn=175|title=Johnson, David Moffat : Post(s)|first=Global Affairs|last=Canada|date=June 5, 2014|website=w05.international.gc.ca}}</ref>

*1958-1959: Charles Bédard (1924-2013)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://w05.international.gc.ca/headsofpost/Results-Resultats.aspx?lang=eng&prsn=108|title=Bédard, Charles Michel : Post(s)|first=Global Affairs|last=Canada|date=June 5, 2014|website=w05.international.gc.ca}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/montreal-qc/charles-michel-bedard-5555821|title=Charles Michel Bedard Obituary - Montreal, QC|website=Dignity Memorial}}</ref>

*1959-1960: John Erichsen-Brown<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://w05.international.gc.ca/headsofpost/Results-Resultats.aspx?lang=eng&prsn=475|title=Erichsen-Brown, John Price : Post(s)|first=Global Affairs|last=Canada|date=June 5, 2014|website=w05.international.gc.ca}}</ref>

*1954: ''Alternate Delegate:'' Major-General P. S. (Prem Singh) Gyani<ref name="books.google.co.uk"/><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MauWlUjuWNsC&q=Dr+Jagan+Nath+J+N+Khosla&pg=PA311|title = The Indochinese Experience of the French and the Americans: Nationalism and Communism in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam|isbn = 0253109256|last1 = Dommen|first1 = Arthur J.|date = 20 February 2002}}</ref>

*1958-1961: ''ICSC for Laos adjourned''<ref name="ReferenceA">{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YM0jAQAAMAAJ&q=Avtar+Singh+Laos&pg=RA10-PA91|title = Reports and Documents|last1 = Congress|first1 = United States|year = 1964}}</ref>

*1962: Avtar Singh<ref name="ReferenceA"/>

;Canadian Commissioner:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://w05.international.gc.ca/headsofpost/Results-Resultats.aspx?lang=eng&cntry=107|title = Heads of Post List : LAOS/ICSC|date = 5 June 2014}}</ref>

*1958-1959: ''Acting'' [[Arthur Edward Blanchette|Arthur Blanchette]] (1921-2003)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://w05.international.gc.ca/headsofpost/Results-Resultats.aspx?lang=eng&prsn=60|title = Blanchette, Arthur Edward : Post(s)|date = 5 June 2014}}</ref>

*1959-1961: ''Acting'' [[D'Iberville Fortier]] (1926-2006)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://w05.international.gc.ca/headsofpost/Results-Resultats.aspx?lang=eng&prsn=147|title=Fortier, d'Iberville : Post(s)|date=5 June 2014}}</ref>

*1963-1965: ''Acting'' Jean-Marie Déry<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://w05.international.gc.ca/headsofpost/Results-Resultats.aspx?lang=eng&prsn=419|title=Déry, Jean-Marie Gaétan : Post(s)|date=5 June 2014}}</ref>

*1965-1966: Clifford Webster<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://w05.international.gc.ca/headsofpost/Results-Resultats.aspx?lang=eng&prsn=138|title=Webster, Clifford Johnston : Post(s)|date=5 June 2014}}</ref>

*1968-1970: Richard Gorham<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://w05.international.gc.ca/headsofpost/Results-Resultats.aspx?lang=eng&prsn=718|title=Gorham, Richard Vessot : Post(s)|date=5 June 2014}}</ref>

;Polish Commissioner:

*1958: Zygfryd Wolniak (1922-1970)<ref>[[:pl:Zygfryd Wolniak]]</ref>{{Circular reference|date=June 2020}}<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EvIMDAAAQBAJ&q=ICC+Polish+Commissioners+for+Cambodia&pg=PA75|title = Eisenhower and Cambodia: Diplomacy, Covert Action, and the Origins of the Second Indochina War|isbn = 9780813167442|last1 = Rust|first1 = William J.|date = 10 June 2016}}</ref>

==Medal==

The medal was planned was planned and designed by India; it was produced in [[Bangalore]]. India had gained its own independence less than a decade before the formation of the ICC and was the lead-nation of the project, by command and by numbers, and was proud to commemorate its active leadership in of the developing [[Non-Aligned Movement]]. When the idea was presented to its colleagues, the reaction was less than ecstatic: Canada was thinking of issuing its own national peacekeeping or general service medal and was therefore hesitant, and Poland was equally non-committal.