Vietnam handed over four sets of remains believed to be from American servicemen who died during the war in Vietnam that ended in 1975 at a ceremony on Tuesday.

The event, the 166th of its kind, was conducted at Da Nang International Airport in Da Nang City, central Vietnam by the Vietnam Office for Seeking Missing Persons (VNOSMP) with the attendance of representatives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of Public Security, and the administration of south-central Vietnam’s Khanh Hoa Province.

The U.S. side at the ceremony was represented by U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Marc E. Knapper and representatives from the U.S. Missing In Action (MIA) Office in Hanoi.

At the event, the VNOSMP handed over four sets of remains to the U.S. These remains were recovered during the 155th joint field activities, which took place from May to July this year in Khanh Hoa.

These activities were carried out under the supervision and active support of the VNOSMP and functional forces of the province.

The remains had been examined by Vietnamese and American forensic experts who concluded that they might be associated with U.S. servicemen missing during the war in Vietnam.

Vietnam and the U.S. have cooperated in searching for and repatriating remains of American MIAs since the Paris Peace Accords was signed on January 27, 1973. 

For more than 50 years, Vietnam has handed over more than 1,000 sets of remains to the U.S. and helped the U.S. identify over 730 MIA soldiers.

This humanitarian activity is aimed at contributing to healing the wounds of war, building trust, and promoting the bilateral relations between the two countries.

On June 26, a similar ceremony was held at the same airport to repatriate the remains believed to belong to a U.S. MIA soldier from the war in Vietnam.

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