Vietnam Announces US VP Harris Visit

HANOI, VIETNAM - U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will soon travel to Vietnam, Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc said Thursday.

Phuc said he looked forward to Harris’s “upcoming” visit as he met with U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in the Presidential Palace, without providing further details. U.S. officials traveling with Austin did not confirm the visit and referred VOA to the White House. Austin, the first Biden administration Cabinet official to visit Vietnam, arrived in the midst of the crippling COVID-19 pandemic and just days after the U.S. shipped 3 million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to Vietnam. The delivery raises the total number of vaccines the U.S. has given the Southeast Asian nation to 5 million.