The ceremony to hand over to the US a set of remains of a US serviceman who died during the war in Vietnam. (Photo: VNA)

At the hand over ceremony at Hanoi’s Gia Lam airport, Chargé d'Affaires of the US Embassy in Hanoi Christopher Klein highly valued the cooperation between the two sides to ensure that MIA activities in Vietnam are not disrupted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

The MIA search has laid a foundation for further cooperation in addressing humanitarian issues between the two countries, including the US’s support in searching for Vietnamese soldiers who laid down their lives during wartime, he said.

The search for remains of US servicemen missing during the war in Vietnam is a humanitarian activity between the Vietnamese and US Governments. This is the 155th hand-over of remains of US missing servicemen since 1973.