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Obama announces full lifting of Vietnam arms embargo

Published: 23 May 2016 - 09:32 am | Last Updated: 14 Nov 2021 - 10:24 pm
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US President Barack Obama attends a news conference with Vietnam's President Tran Dai Quang at the Presidential Palace Compound in Hanoi, Vietnam, May 23, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

 

Hanoi: The United States has fully lifted its ban on weapons sales to Vietnam, President Barack Obama announced on Monday during a visit to Hanoi, unpicking a decades-old embargo on the one-time enemy. 

"The United States is fully lifting the ban on the sale of military equipment to Vietnam that has been in place for some fifty years," he said at a joint press conference alongside his Vietnamese counterpart President Tran Dai Quang.

AFP