NATION : Vietnam Affirms Help on MIAs
Vietnam has reaffirmed its willingness to speed up accounting for the 2,296 American servicemen still missing in Southeast Asia, a special envoy for President Bush said today.
Gen. John W. Vessey Jr., the presidential emissary to Hanoi for prisoner-of-war and missing-in-action affairs, said he got the encouraging words from senior Vietnamese officials in a meeting Thursday in New York.
“They said they want to continue to cooperate and to speed up resolving the issue,” Vessey told a reporter after addressing a ceremony for POW-MIA Recognition Day.
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