LookAtVietnam – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung welcomed US Senator John McCain’s visit to Vietnam, saying he believed that the visit will contribute to increasing mutual understanding and multifaceted cooperation between the two countries.

Receiving the US Senator, Chairman of the NA Nguyen Phu Trong highly appreciated the US politician’s contribution to normalising and boosting Vietnam-US relations.

Senator McCain meets reporters, students

US senator John McCain met local and foreign reporters in Hanoi on April 7 during his on-going visit to the Southeast Asian country.

The Senator, who has been visiting Vietnam for many times over the last 15 years, expressed his impression on economic achievements that Vietnam has made since the normalisation of Vietnam-US relations and the signing of bilateral trade agreement.

Responding to reporters’ queries on the Agent Orange/dioxin issue in Vietnam, the senator said the matter draws attention from both sides. The US Government has provided 46 million USD for helping Vietnamese AO victims and decontaminating affected areas.

Vietnam and the US are continuing assisting AO victims and cleaning dioxin polluted areas, he said.

On the same day, the politician met students of the Institute of International Relations, where he said that this visit reminded him of outstanding progresses in poverty reduction, improvement in living conditions and expansion of foreign relations that Vietnam has made in recent years.

VietNamNet/VNA