November 15, 2014
agent orange, children of Vietnam veterans, Dioxin Detoxification, military exposures, military families, veterans children, Vietnam, Vietnam veterans
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Dung suggested the US increase funding for cleaning up dioxin and support Vietnamese Agent Orange/Dioxin victims and the clearance of war-era unexploded ordnances. He also asked the US to completely lift the ban on the sale of lethal arms to Viet Nam.
He pledged to continue assisting Viet Nam with dioxin detoxification and bomb and mine clearance while welcoming the country’s joining of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the other Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhumane or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.