Vatican, Vietnam agree to upgrade relations


FILE PHOTO: A handicraft vendor waits for customers on a foggy day in front of a Catholic church after Sunday Mass in Vietnam's northern resort town of Sapa, north of Hanoi, February 21, 2016. REUTERS/Kham/File Photo

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican and Vietnam have agreed to upgrade their relations, which have been slowly improving since a total break after the communist victory in the Vietnam War nearly half a century ago.

A joint working group agreed at its latest meeting in Hanoi that in the near future relations would be upgraded to the level of residential representatives in both Hanoi and Rome, a Vatican statement said on Friday.

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