UN General Assembly
1993

Viet Nam have not yet been normalized 20 years after the end of the war is not normal nor is it in consonance with the trend of our time. With the desire to close the book on the past and to look to the future, Viet Nam wishes and stands ready to normalize relations with the United States on the basis of equality and mutual respect and without preconditions. This would meet the aspirations and interests of the peoples of the two countries, and would serve peace, stability, cooperation and development in the region and throughout the world. Viet Nam still has tens of thousands of people missing since the war, and their remains have yet to be found; and millions of war victims need help. We are deeply sympathetic towards the sentiments of American families whose loved ones went missing in the Viet Nam war, and have cooperated, are cooperating and will continue to cooperate actively with the American Government and people on the missing-in-action question. We consider this a purely humanitarian issue.