U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright places a brick onto the foundation of a new U.S. Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City as U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Pete Peterson (L) looks on during a brick-laying ceremony on the former U.S. Embassy grounds June 28. Albright is the first U.S. State Secretary to visit Ho Chi Minh since the Vietnam War.

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