Invitation Statement

For all the common pain and sufferings from the defoliant, we are honored to invite combattants to this gathering who looked eyes to eyes with death in the war in Vietnam by orders from our nations. It was whn we held guns shooting at each other and intending to kill each other in Vietnam.

For all the common sadness and sufferings, we join each other as travel companions across all borders.

On the friendship between our two countries and as travel companion on the same boat sharing pain, the Coalition of Korean Combattant Associations of Victims of Agent Orange has founded its chapter in Vietnam. We invite you to come, please take the lead and cheer for each other.

March 10, 2007 at 11:00 AM at the Daewoo Hotel, Hanoi, Vietnam

General President: Lee Hyung Kuy
Chair of the Vietnam Chapter: Seo Cheol Jae
with the presence of the Ambassador of Korea to Vietnam, Vice General Presidents and Representatives of 17 chapters of the Coalition in South Korea.

Some dates:

• December 10, 1967 permission to found the Coalition by the Ministry of War Disableds of South Korea
• August 8, 2004 agreement with VAVA to have a chapter of the Coalition in Vietnam.
• October 1, 2006 Coalition Resolution to form a chapter in Vietnam
• April 28, 2006 Permission from the Vietnamese Government to have a chapter in Vietnam
• October 9, 2006 Certificate of Korean Chapter in Vietnam.
• March 10, 2007 Founding Ceremony of the Vietnam Chapter of the Korean Coalition.

 

Mr. Seo Cheol Jae, Chair of the Korean AO Coalition Chapter in Vietnam.

President of VAVA Dang Vu Hiep and Ho Si Hai, Vice President of Hai Phong VAVA.

with Sprokesperson Charles J. Choy, Korean Disabled Veterans Association for Agent Orange Victims, who was with the Korean AO victims coming to the UN and the White House in 2006.

with Ho Si Hai, Vice President of the Hai Phong VAVA, who came to the US on the first AO victim delegation in 2005.

Dr. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Toan, Permanent Member of VAVA in charge of Scientific Affairs.