A ceremony was held in the central city of Da Nang on December 5 to hand over to the US side remains believed to be of US servicemen missing in action (MIAs) during the war in Vietnam.

Deputy Foreign Minister Pham Quang Vinh received Eleonora Mitrofanova – head of the Russian Federation’s Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo) – in Hanoi on October 9.