U.S. aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan is slated to arrive in Da Nang, a tourist hotspot on Vietnam’s central coast, this Sunday for a six-day visit, the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs recently announced.

This ninth Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier will visit Da Nang for friendly exchange activities from June 25 to 30, spokeswoman for the foreign ministry Pham Thu Hang told a press conference in Hanoi on Thursday.

She stated that the coming arrival of the USS Ronald Reagan, which is now operating in the East Vietnam Sea, is among the planned visits to Vietnam by naval vessels from different countries. 

“This is an ordinary friendship exchange activity for the sake of peace, stability, cooperation, and development in both the region and the world,” the spokesperson added.

The visit was scheduled in alignment with the 10th anniversary of the Vietnam-U.S. comprehensive partnership, which was set up on July 25, 2013 during a visit to the U.S. by then-Vietnamese State President Truong Tan Sang. 

The USS Ronald Reagan, the sole forward-deployed aircraft carrier of the U.S. Navy, would be the third U.S. flattop to visit Vietnam.

The USS Carl Vinson called at Da Nang in March 2018, becoming the first U.S. ship of its kind to visit Vietnam in more than 40 years since the end of the war in the Southeast Asian nation.

On March 5, 2020, when Vietnam and the U.S. celebrated 25 years of the normalization of bilateral ties, the USS Theodore Roosevelt also docked in the central coastal city for a five-day port call.

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