Foreign relations of Vietnam
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As of September 2025, Vietnam maintains diplomatic relations with all 192 other member states of the UN, as well as with the State of Palestine and Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
Foreign ministry in Hanoi
Vietnamese troops on Spratly Island
Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bùi Thanh Sơn with British Foreign Secretary David Lammy in Kuala Lumpur, July 2025.
Early contacts between the United States and Vietnam began around 1787, when US minister to France Thomas Jefferson met the exiled Vietnamese Prince Cảnh, son of future Gia Long in Paris, as Jefferson
Foreign relations of Vietnam
…Vietnam in 1991. The two nations concluded a land border demarcation agreement in 1999. In 1995, the US and Vietnam re-established diplomatic ties. United States–Vietnam relations improved in August 1995, when both nations upgraded their liaison offices opened during January 1995 to embassy status, with the United States later…
Meeting between President of the United States Joe Biden and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Tô Lâm in 2024, being cited as a significant bilateral meeting between the two leaders.
Letter of Quảng Nam Provincial Commissioner Ngô Bá Hy to Vietnamese emperor Tu Duc (r. 1848-1883) reporting on the arrival of USS Plymouth in Da Nang harbor, sent on March 9, 1850, Vietnamese State Archive. Content by translation: "The president of the Ma-ly-can country said that, four years ago (1845), a naval commander from his country came to our country and allowed his soldiers to go ashore and kill our people, but because his country is so distant, he only learned of it now. He has since punished that naval commander. That commander acted without proper restraint and thus harmed the friendship between the two countries. The president of that country originally did not wish to cling to old grievances and cut off all trade relations... Moreover, fourteen years earlier (1836), they had already sent an envoy named (
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson visiting a textile mill in Saigon, 1961
U.S. Army soldiers burning a National Liberation Front base camp during the Vietnam War, 1968