International Task Force Reports Progress in Addressing Impact of Dioxin in Vietnam

U.S. Newswire, February, 2008

To: NATIONAL EDITORS

Contact: Ford Foundation press office, 1-212-573-5128

Corrosive Legacy of War Gradually Yielding to Cooperative Healing Effort

HANOI, Vietnam, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Thirty-three years after the end of the Vietnam War, a series of new measures to address the spread and impact of toxic dioxin used in the war are beginning to yield results, according to a high-level working group of Vietnamese and American leaders working to address the legacy of Agent Orange in Vietnam.

The US-Vietnam Dialogue Group on Agent Orange/Dioxin today said that the first round of dioxin containment measures are now in place in and around the Danang airport, one of Vietnams largest hot spots of dioxin contamination. After a week of visits across...

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