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United States-Vietnam Relations: From MIAs to Full Dialogue

Friday, February 23, 2001 | 12:00 PM -Friday, February 23, 2001 | 11:00 PM

Dennis Harter is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service and a Foreign Service Officer (since 1966) specializing in Asian Affairs. From 1968-1970, he served as a district senior advisor in the Mekong Delta, then as deputy director for Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia Affairs in the late 1970s. He has served as director of Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam Affairs during the period of normalization of relations with Vietnam, and as deputy chief of Mission (Deputy Ambassador) from August 1997 to the present. He also served in Hong Kong twice; in Taiwan and Indonesia, and was Consul General in Guangzhou, People's Republic of China from 1989-1993.

Okimoto Conference Room, Encina Hall, East Wing, Third Floor

Dennis Harter Deputy Chief of Mission (Deputy Ambassador) Vietnam

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