'President Obama is considering lifting the arms embargo on Vietnam'
On May 9, senior US officials said that US President Barack Obama is considering lifting the three-decade-old arms embargo on Vietnam.
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| US President Barack Obama. (Source: AFP/VNA) |
According to the source, the debate on this issue is taking place in the context of the US preparing for President Obama's visit to Vietnam in the second half of May to strengthen relations between Washington and Hanoi amid China's increasingly assertive actions regarding territory in the East Sea.
The complete lifting of the arms embargo will erase one of the last major vestiges of the Vietnam War and accelerate the process of normalizing bilateral relations that began in 1995./.
According to Vietnam+
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