Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Consulate General of the United States of America, Ho Chi Minh City represents the interests of the United States government in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly known as Saigon), Vietnam. [1] [2] The consulate reports to the ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi. Prior to the Reunification of Vietnam in 1975, the Consulate General served as the ...
The United States Office for MIA Affairs officially opened in Hanoi on July 7, 1991, marking the first continuous presence of an official U.S. government agency in Vietnam since 1975. The U.S. Embassy in Hanoi was inaugurated on August 6, 1995, during Secretary of State Warren Christopher 's visit.
The United States Embassy in Saigon was first established in June 1952, and moved into a new building in 1967 and eventually closed in 1975. The embassy was the scene of a number of significant events of the Vietnam War, most notably the Viet Cong attack during the Tet Offensive which helped turn American public opinion against the war, and the helicopter evacuation during the Fall of Saigon ...
This is a list of diplomatic missions in Vietnam.The capital, Hanoi currently hosts 78 embassies. Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang are host to career consulates.. This listing omits honorary consulates and trade missions, except for those that serve as de facto embassies.
The US was opposed to the communist government of the North, led by Chairman Hồ Chí Minh, and did not recognize the northern regime. At the end of the Vietnam War, the US Embassy in Saigon was shuttered and all embassy personnel evacuated on April 29, 1975, just prior to the capture of Saigon by North Vietnamese and Việt Cộng forces.
The Democratic Republic of Vietnam's first embassy was opened in Beijing in 1950, followed by Moscow in 1952, and consulates in Nanning, Kunming, and Guangzhou opening shortly afterwards. In 1964 the DRV had opened 19 diplomatic missions abroad; six years later this number increased to 30. [1]
The United States ambassador to Vietnam (Đại sứ Hoa Kỳ tại Việt Nam or formally Đại sứ đặc mệnh toàn quyền Hợp chúng quốc Hoa Kỳ tại Việt Nam, 'Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the United States of America in Vietnam') is the chief American diplomat to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; United States Embassy and Consulate in Vietnam