Embassy of Vietnam, Washington, D.C.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Washington, D.C. (Vietnamese: Đại sứ quán Việt Nam tại Hoa Kỳ) is the diplomatic mission of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to the United States. Located in the Lion Building, the embassy was inaugurated on August 6, 1995, the same day as the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi.^[1] The current Vietnamese Ambassador to the United States is Nguyễn Quốc Dũng.^[2]

Embassy of Vietnam, Washington, D.C.
Location	Lion Building
Opened	August 6, 1995
Ambassador	Nguyễn Quốc Dũng

Location

The ambassador's residence is at 2251 R Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C. The building housed the Embassy of South Vietnam from the 1950s until May 23, 1975, when it was closed.^[3][4] It later donated its Vietnamese film reel collection to the Library of Congress.^[5] The embassy also operates a Consulate-General in San Francisco.^[6]

In 2022, Vietnam completed negotiations to purchase $23.7 million site for a new embassy location at 3330 Garfield Street in Washington, D.C.^[7] The property is the former site of the Embassy of Belgium.^[8]

List of ambassadors

See also: List of ambassadors of Vietnam to the United States

See also

• United States–Vietnam relations

References

1. "CHRONOLOGY OF U.S. – VIETNAM RELATIONS". Retrieved October 25, 2023.
2. "Ambassador Nguyen Quoc Dzung | Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in the United States". vietnamembassy-usa.org. Retrieved 2024-10-04.
3. "The Vietnam Embassy In Washington Closes". The New York Times. 1975-05-24. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
4. Lippman, Thomas W. (1995-01-28). "U.S. AND VIETNAM AGREE TO OPEN LIAISON OFFICES'". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
5. "Vietnam on Film and Television, Appendix 1". www2.iath.virginia.edu. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
6. "Vietnam-embassy.org". Archived from the original on 2018-11-06. Retrieved 2022-07-12.
7. "Vietnam Purchases New US Embassy in Washington DC for $23.7m | Saigoneer". saigoneer.com. Retrieved 2024-10-04.
8. Sernovitz, Daniel J. (December 12, 2019). "Belgium sells its D.C. embassy to another foreign delegation". American City Business Journals. Retrieved 2024-10-04.