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1st LD: U.S. lifts arms embargo on Vietnam

Xinhua, May 23, 2016 Adjust font size:

President of the United States Barack Obama on Monday announced to lift a decades-long arms embargo on Vietnam.

Obama made the announcement at a press conference co--chaired with Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang in Vietnam's capital Hanoi during ongoing Obama's visit to the country.

Obama also made it clear that the United States may sell military weapons to Vietnam under a case-by-case basis, when answering questions from media during the conference.

The Vietnamese president, for his part, said that "Vietnam welcomes U.S. decision to completely lift arms embargo on Vietnam."

The U.S. imposed arms embargo on Vietnam in 1984. Endit