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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:43:31 -0500
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- From: Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
- Subject: NEWS/VN: VN woos UN peacekeeping dollars
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- 12/19
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- VIETNAM WOOS U.N. PEACEKEEPING DOLLARS
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- PHNOM PENH, Dec 19, Reuter - Vietnam is battling for tourist dollars by
- inviting United Nations peacekeeping soldiers in Cambodia to spend their rest
- and recreation leave on its beaches.
- Hanoi's embassy in Phnom Penh on Friday distributed a circular suggesting
- members of the 22,000-strong U.N. Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC)
- head for leave destinations popular with U.S. servicemen during the Vietnam
- War.
- "The Government of Vietnam welcomes UNTAC personnel to visit Ho Chi Minh
- City (formerly Saigon) and Vung Tau resort city," it said.
- "UNTAC personnel interested to travel to Vietnam for tourist purpose are
- invited to contact the Consular Section of the Vietnam Embassy."
- Before the communist victory in Vietnam in 1975 both Saigon and the beach
- at Vung Tau were famous as rest and recreation stopovers for American troops.
- Phnom Penh travel agents say that compared with Cambodia's western
- neighbour Thailand, Vietnam has been slow to exploit the market presented by
- UNTAC -- apparently because of its sensitivity about having foreign troops on
- its soil.
- Until now, UNTAC personnel -- like other tourists wishing to visit Vietnam
- -- have faced bureaucratic delays in obtaining visas.
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