The sixth Vietnam-US Defence Policy Dialogue took place in Washington D.C. during Deputy Defence Minister Nguyen Chi Vinh’s visit to the US from September 29 to October 2.
President Truong Tan Sang has told US Secretary of State John Kerry that Vietnam highly values its ties with the US and considers the country a top partner.
US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on July 14 issued a statement on the 20th
anniversary of the normalisation of diplomatic relations between the
United States and Vietnam.
Venezuelan TV channel Telesur screened the documentary film “Journey
to a country that no longer exists” by Cuban director Isabel Santos on
May 4 on the occasion of the liberation of South Vietnam (April 30)
four decades ago.
The Association of Agent Orange/Dioxin Victims in the central city of Da
Nang on April 14 presented three houses worth 123 million VND (5,693
USD) to poor local AO victims’ families in the hope of helping them
improve their living conditions.
President of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) Vu
Xuan Hong welcomed a delegation from the US Veterans of Foreign Wars
(VFW) in Hanoi on March 25.
The cooperation between Vietnamese and US nationals plays a crucial
component in the normalisation of relations between the two countries,
according to outcomes from a forum held in Hanoi on January 27.
As many as 66 victims of Agent Orange/dioxin were honoured for
excelling themselves at a conference in the central province of Thua
Thien-Hue on December 23.
Around 250,000 cu.m of soil in Bien Hoa City, the southern province
of Dong Nai, are contaminated with dioxin at levels ranging from 1,000
ppt to as high as more than 1 million ppt, it was reported at a workshop
in Dong Nai on October 21.
The Vietnamese and US armies will boost cooperation in overcoming war
consequences, search and rescue, disaster relief, training and law
enforcement at sea.
The first phase of a project to treat dioxin contamination in Da Nang
Airport will commence in April, the project management authorities
have revealed.
The US State Department on December 16 issued a fact sheet on the
US-Vietnam comprehensive partnership, describing it as “an overarching
framework for advancing the bilateral relationship”.
President Truong Tan Sang of Vietnam and President Barack Obama of the
United States of America issued a joint statement at the end of their
talks in Washington on July 25. The statement runs as follow:
President Barack Obama welcomed President Truong Tan Sang of the
Socialist Republic of Vietnam to the White House on July 25, 2013.
During their meeting, the two Presidents affirmed their commitment to
opening a new phase of bilateral relations between Vietnam and the
United States based on mutual respect and common interests. President
Truong Tan Sang’s visit comes at an important time for both nations,
reflecting a shared desire to build a forward-looking relationship
between the two countries.
Dioxin levels in the milk of first-time mothers living near the
heavily-contaminated Bien Hoa airport in southern Dong Nai province have
been found to be higher than levels recorded in other regions.
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XIII National Congress of Communist Party of Vietnam
