A delegation of the Steering Committee on the Search and Repatriation ofRemains of Fallen Soldiers (Committee 1237) held a working session withthe Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) in Washington onJuly 28, according to the Quan doi Nhan dan (People’s Army) newspaper.
At the meeting, Deputy Defence Minister Sen. Lieut.Gen. Nguyen Thanh Cung who is deputy head of Committee 1237, affirmedthat the Vietnamese Government will continue to facilitate andeffectively cooperate with the US in the search for remains of bothsides’ soldiers missing in action (MIA).
He notedthat Vietnam has announced the list and opened almost all siteswhere Americans were believed to have gone missing during the war. In2009 and 2011, the country allowed the US Navy’s oceanographic researchship to join the search for MIA remains in the waters offshore centralVietnam .
To date, Vietnam has delivered 952boxes of remains to the US, of which more than 700 sets of remainshave been identified.
At present, Vietnam and the US are conducting their 116th joint field activities with seven search teams.
The Deputy Defence Minister expressed his wish that the JPAC willpromptly provide the Vietnamese side with information on dead andmissing Vietnamese military men (about 200,000) as well as exchangeexperience in searching for MIA.
He added thatVietnam wants to accelerate the joint search for fallen or missingVietnamese soldiers as time has brought about great changes in landscapeand many witnesses have passed away.
For hispart, Lieut. Gen. Kelley Mc Keagne, JPAC Commander spoke highly of theeffective cooperation between the two Governments in this field.
He proposed cooperation in training Vietnamese staff in forensic anthropology and scientific exchange.
He asked Vietnam to continue assisting the US’s search teams whenthey conduct two large-scale excavations in Vietnam in the fourthquarter of 2014.-VNA
At the meeting, Deputy Defence Minister Sen. Lieut.Gen. Nguyen Thanh Cung who is deputy head of Committee 1237, affirmedthat the Vietnamese Government will continue to facilitate andeffectively cooperate with the US in the search for remains of bothsides’ soldiers missing in action (MIA).
He notedthat Vietnam has announced the list and opened almost all siteswhere Americans were believed to have gone missing during the war. In2009 and 2011, the country allowed the US Navy’s oceanographic researchship to join the search for MIA remains in the waters offshore centralVietnam .
To date, Vietnam has delivered 952boxes of remains to the US, of which more than 700 sets of remainshave been identified.
At present, Vietnam and the US are conducting their 116th joint field activities with seven search teams.
The Deputy Defence Minister expressed his wish that the JPAC willpromptly provide the Vietnamese side with information on dead andmissing Vietnamese military men (about 200,000) as well as exchangeexperience in searching for MIA.
He added thatVietnam wants to accelerate the joint search for fallen or missingVietnamese soldiers as time has brought about great changes in landscapeand many witnesses have passed away.
For hispart, Lieut. Gen. Kelley Mc Keagne, JPAC Commander spoke highly of theeffective cooperation between the two Governments in this field.
He proposed cooperation in training Vietnamese staff in forensic anthropology and scientific exchange.
He asked Vietnam to continue assisting the US’s search teams whenthey conduct two large-scale excavations in Vietnam in the fourthquarter of 2014.-VNA
