U.S should take moral responsibility for addressing war aftermath


Ha Noi, Mar. 11 (VNA) -- The United States has a spiritual and moral responsibility to help Viet Nam settle war legacies, including those caused by Agent Orange/Dioxin, said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Phan Thuy Thanh, in Ha Noi on Mar. 11.

Vietnam and U.S sign MOU on joint agent orange research

Ha Noi, March 10 (VNA)-- Viet Nam and the United States signed here today a Memorandum of Understanding on joint scientific research on human health and environmental effects of Agent Orange/Dioxin, calling for the establishment of a joint commission.

The would-be commission, the participants said, would coordinate relevant scientific cooperation researches, consider and approve the contents of those projects, examine and assess their outcomes, and find ways to overcome the consequences found from the researches.

American veterans regret for their deeds during Vietnam war


Washington, Mar. 11 (VNA) -- The Viet Nam war ended for nearly three decades but what it left behind is enormous, ranging from physical pains to psychological agonies for not only Vietnamese veterans but also their American peers.

A Viet Nam News Agency correspondent in Washington reported that the Vietnamese Embassy in Washington has recently received letters from American veterans in the Viet Nam war apologising and asking for forgiveness for what they did in the war.

Statement of joint committee for VN-US conference on Agent Orange

Ha Noi, Mar. 6 (VNA) -- The Joint Organizing Committee for the Viet Nam-U.S. Scientific Conference on Human Health and Environmental Effects of Agent Orange/Dioxin issued a statement at the closing session of the three-day conference in Ha Noi today, Mar. 6.

Following is the full text of the statement:

"Researchers from 19 countries reported results from almost 100 studies on the health and environmental effects of Agent Orange/Dioxin in this first open international conference held in Ha Noi, Viet Nam, by two countries, Viet Nam and the United States.

FM rejects the U.S State Dept's human rights report 2001

Wed, 03/06/2002 - 18:00

Ha Noi, March 6 (VNA) -- Viet Nam's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Phan Thuy Thanh on Wednesday rejected as a crude slander the U.S. State Department's human rights report in 2001 criticizing some countries including Viet Nam.

"The report has grossly distorted the reality in Viet Nam as it made a series of slanderous accusations with false evidence," Ms. Thanh said in response to foreign and domestic correspondents' queries about Viet Nam's reaction to the U.S. human rights report issued on March 4.

Aspiration for family reunion relatives of illegal immigrants

Tue, 03/05/2002 - 11:41

Central Highlands province Gia Lai

Meeting with returnees to the Central Highlands

Tue, 03/05/2002 - 10:59

Ha Noi, March 5 (VNA) -- Illegal ethnic minority migrants, who just returned to their homes in the Central Highlands, after having spent six difficult months in make-shift Cambodian camps, recently spoke out about their experiences. According to these returnees, evil people had incited them to flee their homeland in the Central Highlands last year.

FM Spokeswoman on new evidence of ruthless of US war in VN


Ha Noi, March 1 (VNA) -- The spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry has described a conversation recorded on a cassette tape between the then U.S. President Richard Nixon and his National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger on April 27, 1972 as providing new evidence of the extreme ruthlessness of a number of warlike people in the then U.S. administration.

VN attends conference on people smuggling and trafficking

Fri, 03/01/2002 - 15:44

Ha Noi, Feb. 28 (VNA) -- A Vietnamese delegation, led by Permanent Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Dinh Bin, attended the Regional Ministerial Conference on People Smuggling, Trafficking in Persons, and Related Transnational Crimes held in Bali, Indonesia from Feb. 26-28.

Gia Lai meets with relatives of illegal migrants

Fri, 03/01/2002 - 15:36

Gia Lai, Mar. 1 (VNA) -- The Fatherland Front in central highlands Gia Lai province on Friday met with nearly 500 relatives of ethnic people who were deceived by malefactors into illegally crossing the border to Cambodia.

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