Events At Usip

The U.S. government will soon launch a Vietnamese Wartime Accounting Initiative following decades of Vietnamese cooperation to conduct the fullest possible accounting of missing U.S. personnel. To support this and other bilateral initiatives, USIP has established a new project that will promote greater dialogue both in and between the United States and Vietnam on war legacy issues and reconciliation. On August 3, USIP hosted a discussion with U.S. and Vietnamese officials on the Vietnamese Wartime Accounting Initiative and how it fits into broader efforts to overcome legacies of war. Speakers Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) U.S. Senator; Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations  Senior Lieutenant General Hoang Xuan Chien Deputy Minister, Vietnam Ministry of National Defense Ha Kim Ngoc Ambassador of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to the United States Christopher Klein Chargé d’Affaires, U.S. Embassy in Vietnam Colonel Thomas Stevenson U.S. Defense Attaché, U.S. Embassy in Hanoi Ann Marie Yastisho