Return of remains of US soldiers missing in war

Continuing tonight's news program with other important news! This morning, the 164th Ceremony to Return the Remains of US Soldiers Missing in Action (MIA) in Vietnam took place at Da Nang International Airport. Attending the ceremony were Senior Lieutenant General Hoang Xuan Chien - Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Minister of National Defense, the Vietnam Agency for Search for Missing Persons, representatives of leaders of units under the Ministry of National Defense, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Public Security . On the US side, there was US Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Vietnam Marc Knapper.

At the handover ceremony, the Vietnamese representative handed over to the US representative two sets of remains, the result of the 154th joint search between Vietnamese and US agencies (February-April 2024). The remains were examined by Vietnamese forensic experts in Da Nang and concluded that they may be related to US soldiers missing during the Vietnam War.

The joint humanitarian search and accounting for U.S. servicemen missing in action in Vietnam, conducted since the late 1980s between the governments of Vietnam and the United States, has so far helped identify more than 720 cases of U.S. servicemen missing in action.

Thuy Trang, Vu Quan

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