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This is a list of diplomatic missions of Laos. After gaining independence in 1950 the secluded landlocked country of Laos began establishing diplomatic relations with other countries in the world. It still maintains ties with traditionally Eastern bloc countries, but Laos is now more concerned with developing more practical relationships with ...
Kelly, Gail P. "Coping with America: Refugees from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos in the 1970s and 1980s." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 487.1 (1986): 138-149. Larson, Zeb. Gale Researcher Guide for: The Bombings of Laos and Cambodia (Gale, Cengage Learning, 2018). Leary, William M. "CIA air operations in Laos ...
This is a list of diplomatic missions in Laos. At present, the capital city of Vientiane hosts 27 embassies. Several other countries have missions resident in other ...
The foreign relations of Laos, internationally designated by its official name as the Lao People's Democratic Republic, after the takeover by the Pathet Lao in December 1975, were characterized by a hostile posture toward the West, with the government of the Lao People's Democratic Republic aligning itself with the Soviet bloc, maintaining close ties with the Soviet Union and depending heavily ...
Chargé d'affaires, (1942) Among those known to Amnesty International whose release was later confirmed were Oudong Souvannavong, the 64-year-old former director of the National Bank of Laos, and his brother Ouday Soukpraseuth Sithimolada, a 48-year-old former diplomat and chef de cabinet in the ministry of foreign affairs
The United Nations' cultural agency recommended Thursday that Laos invite a monitoring mission to the historic city of Luang Prabang, a World Heritage Site where a nearby dam project on the Mekong ...
A veteran Laotian diplomat recently appointed the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ’ special envoy to Myanmar arrived Wednesday on his first mission to the strife-torn nation, meeting with ...
The United States established full diplomatic relations with Laos in 1955, following its full independence from France in 1954. [ citation needed ] On December 29, 1961, during the Laotian Civil War , President John F. Kennedy made the Ambassador to Laos the de facto commander of U.S. military and paramilitary operations within the Kingdom of ...