PANO – Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Thanh Cung, Deputy Minister of National Defence, on July 25th paid a working visit to the Vietnam Center at the Texas-Tech University, the USA.
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It was part of the visit to the USA of the National Steering Board for the Search and Repatriation of Vietnamese Martyrs’ Remains of which General Cung is its deputy head.
Some verified information relating to Vietnamese military personnel handed over to Vietnamese delegation
At the working session, General Cung informed the center’s members of the fact that Vietnam is verifying and searching for more than 200,000 fallen and missing Vietnamese military personnel in war time.
He stressed that the Vietnam Center is keeping many information relating to Vietnam, including Vietnamese servicemen dead and missing in action in the war, thus the board is willing to cooperate with the center to know designations and code names of the Vietnam People’s Army’s units in different periods in the Vietnam War, aiming to identify them and contribute to the search of Vietnamese martyrs’ remains. The board hoped the center to provide the files in the center relating to Vietnamese military personnel being arrested and missing in the war, so that the Government of Vietnam could locate places where they were buried.
General Cung also handed over some positions of mass graves provided by the US groups and individuals and some information provided by Vietnamese veterans to the center, and asked it to verify and give information to Vietnam through the Vietnam Defence Attaché in the USA.
For his part, the center’s director highly appreciated the Government of Vietnam’s efforts on the issue. He held that the center’s collection of 935 documents is worth for the search of Vietnamese martyrs’ remains. Those documentaries are about coded and digitalized files on the Vietnam People’s Army in the Vietnam War with important information about locations where the battles took place.
He emphasized that the Vietnam Center would do what it can to support Vietnam, especially in searching for Vietnamese martyrs’ remains. The center hoped to receive Vietnam’s assistance in some important projects in the future, including the building of a Vietnam War Museum.
On the afternoon the same day, the center gave Vietnamese delegation verified information relating to what General Cung had given.
By Trinh Tung Lam Translated by Mai Huong
Đăng ký: VietNam News