(Otsugase July 24), August 19, 1995, U.S. President Bill Clinton announced the establishment of diplomatic relations with Vietnam.


Clinton "I came to Vietnam
1995 July 11, 2010, U.S. President Bill Clinton announced the establishment of diplomatic relations with Vietnam, claiming to help Vietnam return to the international community to meet the interests of the United States "
well known in the last century, the United States and Vietnam have experienced an unprecedented brutality of the war, nearly 30 years after the war, the normalization of US-Vietnam relations between the two countries also experienced a lengthy process. Let's look at the relevant background.
1975 4 30, the last a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Ho Chi Minh City, which marks the Vietnam War officially ended. The second year after the end of the war, the United States government to start negotiations on the normalization of Sino-Vietnamese relations. But it was not until 1990, U.S. Secretary of State James Baker and Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen cornerstone in New York bilateral meetings. The second year after this meeting, the United States submitted a report on the gradual normalization of relations between the two countries plan to Vietnam. In February 1994, U.S. President Bill Clinton announced the lifting of the trade embargo against Vietnam, the end of a lock for the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries to open in July 1995, the two countries formally established diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level.