- Title: VIETNAM: USA OPENS LIASON OFFICE IN HANOI
- Date: 8th February 1995
- Summary: HANOI, VIETNAM (FEBRUARY 8,1995) (REUTERS TELEVISION -RTV- ACCESS ALL) 1. GV EXT. OF UNITED STATES (U.S.) LIAISON OFFICE IN HANOI 0.03 2. SV AMERICAN STAFF CARRYING U.S. FLAG OUT TO FLAG POLE 0.08 3. SV/ZOOM-OUT AMERICANS RAISING FLAG (2 SHOTS) 0.27 4. SV AMERICANS WATCHING BEHIND GLASS/ FLAG FLYING (2 SHOTS) 0.36 5. SLV VIETNAMESE WATCHING 0.39 6. SV/ZOOM-OUT REFLECTION OF STARS AND STRIPES IN WINDOW (2 SHOTS) 0.48 7. SV OFFICE RECEPTION WITH PHOTOS OF U.S PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON (2 SHOTS) 0.56 8. GV EXT. OF BUILDING 1.00 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
- Embargoed: 23rd February 1995 12:00
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- Location: HANOI, VIETNAM
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- Country: Vietnam
- Reuters ID: LVAW4MMBQYPILW6YUW719G3ZCR1
- Story Text: The United States (U.S) raised its flag without fanfare over the U.S. liaison office in Hanoi on Wednesday (February 8).
It was the first time the U.S. flag had flown over a government building in Hanoi since 1955, when the United States closed its consulate in the capital of communist North Vietnam.
Three junior officials raised the flag on a third-floor terrace early in the morning for the first time since the office, a nine-storey modern building, was opened on January 28.
State Department and military officials watched the event from inside, saluting as it went up.
The United States says full diplomatic relations with Vietnam depends on further progress in the U.S. drive to account for more than 2,200 U.S. servicemen listed as missing in action (MIAs) in Indochina.
Opening the U.S. liaison office and a Vietnamese liaison office in Washington marked the establishment of formal relations between the two governments for the first time since the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.
U.S. government offices last flew the stars-and-stripes in Saigon, before the United States pulled out its officials as communist forces advanced on the city in April 1975 to win the war against U.S.-backed South Vietnam.
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