Vietnamese Communist Party Secretary General will arrive in the USA for the first time in history

Nguyen Phu Chong, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Vietnamese Communist Party, will arrive shortly with the first ever visit to the United States. This was announced on Friday at the annual conference of the Washington-based nongovernmental center for new American security, US First Deputy Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.

Nguyen Phu Trong "will arrive in the US in about 10 days," he said. We are talking about the “first-ever visit” of the Secretary General of the Central Committee of the CPV to the United States, emphasized the first deputy head of the American Foreign Ministry. He confirmed that during this visit, the Secretary General of the CPV Central Committee will hold negotiations, in particular, with US President Barack Obama.

The visit will be timed to the 20 anniversary of the restoration of diplomatic relations between Washington and Hanoi, Blinken said.

Officially, the then US President Bill Clinton announced the normalization of bilateral relations with Vietnam on July 11 1995.

In the beginning of the year in Havana began The first high-level diplomatic negotiations between the US and Cuba in 35 years.