Obama lifts US arms ban on Vietnam
VOV.VN - At a brief one-hour joint press conference with Vietnam President Tran Dai Quang on May 23, US President Obama announced that the US is fully lifting the ban on the sale of military equipment to Vietnam.
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In lifting the ban that has been in place for decades, Obama said it is part of a deeper defence cooperation with the country and dismissed suggestions it was aimed at countering China's growing strength in the region. |
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Instead, it is the desire of the US to continue normalizing relations with Vietnam and to do away with a ban "based on ideological division between our two countries," he said. |
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Some photos from the press conference. |
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