Hanoi OKs Visit by U.S. Team Seeking MIA Information
The United States and Vietnam reached agreement today on an American proposal to have a delegation visit Hanoi in search of new information about nearly 2,500 military personnel and civilians listed as missing in action in Southeast Asia.
State Department, Pentagon and White House officials, accompanied by Ann Mills-Griffiths, executive director of the National League of POW-MIA Families, will be received in the Vietnamese capital Aug. 28 and 29.
State Department spokesman Charles Redman said the meeting was agreed to by Vietnam today in Bangkok, Thailand. He said the visit would focus “exclusively” on the POW-MIA issue, which he called “a humanitarian problem which will be dealt with despite other differences between our countries.”
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