US President Barack Obama.

According to the White House website, Obama will hold official meetings with Vietnam's leadership to discuss ways for the U.S.-Vietnam Comprehensive Partnership to advance cooperation across a wide range of areas, including economic, people-to-people, security, human rights, and global and regional issues.

In Hanoi, the US President will deliver a speech on U.S.-Vietnam relations. During meetings and events in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, he will discuss the importance of approving the Trans-Pacific Partnership this year.

The US President also will meet with members of civil society, the Young Southeast Asian Leadership Initiative, entrepreneurs, and the business community.

Obama will become the third consecutive US president paying a visit to Vietnam. In 2000 Bill Clinton was the first US President to visit Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War. George W. Bush visited Vietnam in 2006.

After Vietnam, President Obama will go to Japan to attend the G7 Summit on May 26-27 in Ise-Shima.