In Brief: Govt, us to step up efforts for miAs, National, Phnom Penh Post

The

government will boost cooperation to locate and repatriate the remains

of US soldiers killed in Cambodia during the Vietnam War. Foreign

Affairs Ministry spokesman Koy Kuong said Tuesday that Anne Mills

Griffith, the executive director of the US-based National League of

Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia, met with

Foreign Minister Hor Namhong on Monday to thank the government for its

cooperation. Koy Kuong said joint search missions would begin in

Kampong Cham province at the end of the year.

Contact author: Vong Sokheng

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