The move was made to mark the 10th anniversary of the signing of the Anti-chemical Weapons Treaty (April 29, 1997) and also International Day for Victims of Chemical Weapons.

In the statement, the friendship associations demanded the US pay compensation for the people’s continued sufferings from the affected environment.

Lawyers representing the AO victims provided factual and scientific evidence of the effects caused by 72 million litres of herbicides, including 41.6 million litres of AO/dioxin that the US troops had sprayed over Vietnam during the period between 1961-1971.