HANOI: The United States has fully lifted its ban on weapons sales to Vietnam, President Barack Obama announced on Monday during a visit to Hanoi, unpicking a decades-old embargo on the one-time enemy.

“The United States is fully lifting the ban on the sale of military equipment to Vietnam that has been in place for some fifty years,” he said at a joint press conference alongside his Vietnamese counterpart President Tran Dai Quang.

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