Key U.S. Diplomats Will Visit Hanoi
The highest-level American diplomatic team in six years will visit Hanoi next week to underline Washington’s demand for more and better information about the fate of U.S. prisoners of war and missing servicemen from the Vietnam War, the Bush Administration said Thursday.
State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said the delegation, headed by Assistant Secretary of State Richard Solomon, will discuss humanitarian issues, including U.S. assistance to Vietnamese crippled by the war, during the three-day visit beginning Tuesday.
He said the trip is part of a process begun in November that ultimately may result in diplomatic relations between the former enemies. But he said the United States is not yet ready to take that step because Hanoi has not fully cooperated in accounting for 1,656 Americans still listed as missing in Vietnam.
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