United States presents Vietnam with a four-step normalization roadmap

The joint announcement expanded orderly departure opportunities for former re-education detainees and their families. The arrangement created a route for people who had been detained because of former...

Vietnam informed the United Nations that its military withdrawal had been completed by September 26. The departure followed years of conflict and occupation and preceded Cambodia’s negotiated...

Vietnam stated that its forces had completed withdrawal from Cambodia. The announcement mattered to regional diplomacy after years of Vietnamese military presence following the 1978 intervention...

The GAO reviewed the U.S. program for departures from Vietnam, including interviews, case processing, and former re-education detainees. Its report offers a U.S. oversight perspective on the program’s...

The Security Council adopted Resolution 668, welcoming the Cambodian parties’ efforts and endorsing the framework for a comprehensive political settlement. This step advanced a negotiated process that...

A ceasefire began after an appeal by the UN Secretary-General and the foreign ministers of France and Indonesia. It created space for renewed negotiations, though fighting and political tensions...

The Communist Party convened its Seventh Congress in Hanoi during the reform era. Delegates reviewed Đổi Mới and set political and economic priorities as Vietnam sought to overcome isolation and...

The congress approved a platform and leadership changes that framed continued renovation and socialist development. Its decisions reflected Vietnam’s effort to adapt after war, economic crisis, and...

The U.S. office began work on the search for Americans missing from the war. Its opening expanded direct contact between U.S. and Vietnamese officials while emphasizing the U.S. government’s...

The Cambodian factions recorded agreement on the Supreme National Council and Norodom Sihanouk’s role as its chair. The council was intended to represent Cambodian sovereignty during the transition to...