Canada to open new consulate

Canada to open new consulate

HANOI (AFP): Canada plans to open a consulate in Ho Chi Minh City, southern Vietnam, a spokesman for the Canadian embassy in Hanoi said yesterday.

Canada's business mission in the southern economic center will be transformed into a consulate when the requisite approvals are issued "perhaps within months," the spokesman said.

The Canadian embassy in the capital Hanoi was inaugurated in July 1993 and its first ambassador, Christine Desloges, was named last October.