Ambassador thanks American friends for contributions to bilateral ties
Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the United Nations (UN), has thanked Merle Ratner, a close and long-time friend of Vietnam, and her family for their tireless contributions to the Vietnam-US relations over the past decades.
Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang visits Merle Ratner, a close and long-time friend of Vietnam, and her family last weekend. (Photo: VNA)
New York (VNA) – Ambassador Dang HoangGiang, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the United Nations (UN), has thankedMerle Ratner, a close and long-time friend of Vietnam, and her family for theirtireless contributions to the Vietnam-US relations over the past decades.
The ambassador visited Ratner last weekend, during whichhe commended initiatives by Ratner and her husband to help Vietnam improve theefficiency of people-to-people diplomacy.
Giang expressed his hope that the couple will continue toboost exchanges between Vietnam and representatives of left-wing movements inthe US to further improve the mutual understanding between people of the two countries.
Ratner and her husband – Ngo Thanh Nhan, who is aPh.D. in Linguistics from the New York University, noted with joy the ambassador’ssentiments towards American left-wing friends in New York.
Ratner is a leading left-wing activist in the US whoparticipated in movements against the American war in Vietnam when she was 13.She is also co-founder and coordinator of the US-based Vietnam Agent Orange(AO) Relief and Responsibility Campaign (VAORRC).
VAORRC co-ordinator Nhan also joined the anti-Americanwar movements in the 1960s.
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Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang visits Merle Ratner, a close and long-time friend of Vietnam, and her family last weekend. (Photo: VNA) 
