Program and Event

Ambassador Salmon Revisits Laos

Ambassador Charles Salmon of the Asia Pacific Center for Strategic Studies

Ambassador Salmon lectures to an audience at the National Academy of Politics and Public Administration

Ambassador Charles B. Salmon Jr., Foreign Policy Advisor, Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies and former Ambassador to the Lao P.D.R. from 1992-1993, visited Laos from May 20-22. The purpose of his tour was to deliver presentations on “U.S. Foreign Policy in the Obama Administration” to various Lao assemblies.

He spoke to roughly three hundred people at the National Academy of Politics and Public Administration, followed by a fifty-person audience at the National University’s Faculty of Law, and finally shared his message with approximately a hundred officials at the Institute of Foreign Affairs.

Ambassador Salmon joined the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in late August 1996, after he retired from the Department of State. He provides advice on U.S. foreign policy as it relates to Asia-Pacific and Indian Ocean nations.