U.S. and Vietnam presidents hold bilateral meeting

Record ID: 102296

  • Title: U.S. and Vietnam presidents hold bilateral meeting
  • Date: 23rd May 2016
  • Summary: ****WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** VIETNAMESE AND U.S. NATIONAL FLAGS MEETING IN PROGRESS VARIOUS OF OBAMA AND U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN KERRY SITTING DURING MEETING VIETNAMESE DELEGATION SITTING U.S. DELEGATION SITTING OBAMA AND KERRY LISTENING OBAMA LISTENING VARIOUS OF OBAMA SPEAKING QUANG AND VIETNAMESE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER AND MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS PHAM BINH MINH LOOKING ON MEETING IN PROGRESS
  • Embargoed: 7th June 2016 07:03
  • Keywords: Vietnam U.S. United States meeting Obama Tran Dai Quang John Kerry U.S. president
  • Location: HANOI, VIETNAM
  • City: HANOI, VIETNAM
  • Country: Vietnam
  • Topics: Diplomacy/Foreign Policy,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA0024J12BLZ
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: U.S. President Barack Obama sat down for talks with his Vietnamese counterpart Tran Dai Quang on Monday (May 23) during his first visit to the former foe.
    The trip is part of his strategic "rebalance" towards Asia that could bring more overtures to the former enemy to boost its defence capability at a time of rising South China Sea tension.
    The run-up to the visit has been dominated by a debate in Washington about whether to remove a decades-old lethal arms embargo on Hanoi, one of the last vestiges of wartime animosity, and give it easier access to procurements of U.S. military technology.
    Vietnam's poor human rights record is a sticking point, but the Obama administration appears increasingly swayed toward giving Hanoi some leeway to build its deterrent against Beijing.
    Obama, the third U.S. president to visit Vietnam since ties were restored in 1995, is also scheduled to meet two others in Vietnam's triumvirate of leaders, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc as well as Communisty Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong, later on Monday.
    He will also meet National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan at the stilt house where late Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh used to reside.
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