HANOI, March 6 (Xinhuanet) -- The heavy effects of Agent Orange/
Dioxin on human health and environment in Vietnam need to be
solved throughly, Vietnam's Vice Minister of Health Le Ngoc Trong
said here on Wednesday.
   Trong made the remarks here while making a closing speech at
The Vietnam-U.S. scientific conference on human health and
encironmental effects of Agent Orange/Dioxin, which began on March
3.
   He said the results of researches delivered at the conference
have shown a comprehensive imagery of sciential evidences to the
relationship between Agent Orange/Dioxin exposures and human
health and environmental impacts.
   He stressed that "the actual situations of Agent Orange/Dioxin
on human health and environment of Vietnam has been real, and its
heavy effects need to be solved throughly and wholly by our
efforts in order to rehabilitate human health and to return a
clean ecosystem."
   The conference was the first Vietnam-U.S. meeting on the long-
term impacts of Agent Orange/Dioxin on human health and
environment held in Vietnam. 280 Vietnamese scientists and 120
foreign scientists attended the conference.
   About 72 million liters of herbicides, many of them Agent
Orange containing dioxins, was sprayed during Vietnam war. 
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