US embassy cable - 05HANOI1587

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GVN Returns Great Seal to USG

Identifier: 05HANOI1587
Wikileaks: View 05HANOI1587 at Wikileaks.org
Origin: Embassy Hanoi
Created: 2005-06-20 04:18:00
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Tags: PREL VM
Redacted: This cable was not redacted by Wikileaks.
This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.


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FM AMEMBASSY HANOI
TO SECSTATE WASHDC 8232
INFO AMCONSUL HO CHI MINH CITY 
UNCLAS HANOI 001587 
 
SIPDIS 
 
 
DEPT FOR EAP/BCLTV, L/EAP, CA/EX 
 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL, VM 
SUBJECT: GVN Returns Great Seal to USG 
 
Ref:  Hanoi 1300 
 
1. (U) In a brief and low-key ceremony on June 9 at the 
Government Guest House, Foreign Ministry Consular Department 
Director Bui Dinh Dzinh presented to the Ambassador two 
metal plaques bearing the Great Seal of the United States, 
with the inscriptions, "Consulate General" and "United 
States of America."  One of the plaques was from the 
Consular Section entrance of former Embassy Saigon.  The 
plaque was removed sometime after 1975 and had been on 
display in the Ho Chi Minh Campaign Museum in Ho Chi Minh 
City.  The Ambassador had requested the GVN return the seal, 
which was an integral part of the former Embassy property 
returned to the United States in 1995.  The original 
location of the second plaque is not known.  As per reftel, 
minutes recording the hand-over were signed by Dzinh and the 
Ambassador. 
 
2. (SBU) Mission plans to display one seal inside the 
Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City. 
 
3. (SBU) Post is aware of Assistant Secretary Maura Harty's 
possible interest in displaying one of the seals in the 
offices of Consular Affairs.  Post will be pleased to send 
the other seal to the Department upon request. 
 
BOARDMAN 
 
 
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