General Vo Nguyen Giap received
four Agent Orange victims on June 6.

Four Agent Orange victims left for the US on June 9 to attend the first oral argument of a lawsuit filed by Vietnamese AO victims before the US Court of Appeals in New York, scheduled on June 18.

The delegation was led by Vice President and General Secretary of the Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (VAVA) Tran Xuan Thu.

The four victims included Nguyen Thi Hong, 61, from southern Dong Nai province, Nguyen Van Quy, 52, from northern Hai Phong city, and Vo Thanh Hai, 47, and Nguyen Muoi, 24, both from central Thua Thien-Hue province.

The delegation will stop over in several major US cities to call for support from the US public.

A group of eleven US lawyers for the plaintiffs will attend the oral argument.

According to the VAVA, around 4.8 million Vietnamese people have been exposed to dioxin with over 3 million of them eventually becoming AO victims.

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