U.S. May Post Hanoi Mission to Find MIAs
Secretary of State George P. Shultz said today that the United States would consider sending a permanent mission to Hanoi to try to locate U.S. servicemen missing since the Vietnam War.
Shultz said, however, that posting such a mission in the Vietnamese capital would not lead to normalized relations between the two former adversaries unless certain other conditions were met.
Shultz, on a 13-day tour of Asia and the Pacific that began Monday, said the issue of the 2,464 American servicemen listed as missing in action 10 years after the end of the war is Washington’s “foremost” concern with Hanoi.
Shultz made his comments in a speech to foreign ministers of the Assn. of Southeast Asian Nations, which comprises the region’s six non-communist countries--Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Brunei and the Philippines.
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