Vietnam-USA Society

Established in 1945 and based in Hanoi, the Vietnam-USA Society (VUS) was the first bilateral friendship organization in Vietnam. The goal of VUS is to promote mutual understanding, friendly relations, and mutually beneficial cooperation between the people of Vietnam and the United States. VUS is a friendship organization under the guidance of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations, a member organization of the Vietnam Fatherland Front. IGE has partnered with VUS since its June 2005 visit to Vietnam, when IGE and VUS signed a Letter of Intent to work together to improve religious freedom in the context of U.S.-Vietnam bilateral relations through three confidence-building steps in 2006, culminating in the September 2006 conference on "Religion and Rule of Law in Southeast Asia." At the conclusion of the conference, IGE and VUS formalized their partnership through a Memorandum of Understanding to continue working together toward sustainable religious freedom in Vietnam.