Lion Building Explained
The Lion Building is an office building and the seat of the diplomatic missions of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the former seat of the Republic of South Sudan to the United States. It is located at 1233 20th Street Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Dupont Circle neighborhood.[1]
Vietnam
The embassy of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is located at 1233 20th Street, Suite 400.[2]
The ambassador's residence is at 2251 R Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C. The building housed the Embassy of South Vietnam from the 1950s until May 23, 1975, when it was closed.[3] [4] It later donated its Vietnamese film reel collection to the Library of Congress.[5]
The embassy also operates a Consulate-General in San Francisco.[6] The ambassador is Nguyễn Quốc Dũng.[7]
List of ambassadors
See also: List of ambassadors of Vietnam to the United States.
South Sudan
The embassy of the Republic of South Sudan was located at 1233 20th Street N.W. Suite 602.[8] [9] [10] However, it has since been moved to 1015 31st Street NW, Suite 300 per the website.
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Notes and References
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- Web site: The Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam . Embassy.org . 2022-05-08.
- News: 1975-05-24 . The Vietnam Embassy In Washington Closes . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-03-22 . 0362-4331.
- News: Lippman . Thomas W. . 1995-01-28 . U.S. AND VIETNAM AGREE TO OPEN LIAISON OFFICES' . en-US . Washington Post . 2023-03-22 . 0190-8286.
- Web site: Vietnam on Film and Television, Appendix 1 . 2023-03-22 . www2.iath.virginia.edu.
- Web site: Vietnam-embassy.org . 2022-07-12 . 2018-11-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181106021138/http://vietnam-embassy.org/ . dead .
- Web site: VN Embassy : About the Embassy : The Ambassador . 2011-06-11 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110415102057/http://www.vietnamembassy.us/about_the_embassy/the_ambassador/ . 2011-04-15 .
- Web site: Embassy of South Sudan in Washington, D.C., United States . embassypages.com.
- Web site: Embassy of the Republic of South Sudan in Washington, DC - HOME . 2012-03-13 . usurped . https://web.archive.org/web/20120308185940/http://www.gossmission.org/goss/ . 2012-03-08 .
- News: South Sudan's entrance on world stage includes setting up Washington embassy. The Washington Post. Emily Wax. December 26, 2011.