Agent Orange Vietnam: French court rejects case against chemical firms
Lawyers for French-Vietnamese woman, 79, who brought case say court used ‘obsolete’ and overly strict legal interpretation
12 May 2021
Tran To Nga at a demonstration about agent orange use during the Vietman WarBy Jane Hanks
A 79-year-old French-Vietnamese woman says she will appeal the decision by a French court to dismiss her case against several major agrochemical companies over use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War.
She wants the companies to recognise their responsibility in damage she says they caused to the health of nearly four million people in Vietnam when millions of litres of highly toxic herbicide they supplied to the US government was sprayed over the country from 1961-1971.
German media: plaintiffs and supporters of Tran To Ngaâs lawsuit not deterred 22:05 | 12/05/2021
Many newspapers of German have run stories highlighting the lawsuit lodged by Vietnamese French Tran To Nga against 14 multinational chemical companies that produced the toxic chemicals sprayed by the US army in Vietnam during the war, affirming that the plaintiff and her supporters are not deterred by the ruling of a French court that the case fell outside its jurisdiction.
A story about Tran To Nga s lawsuit in Junge Welt newspaper (Photo: VNA)
Berlin â Many newspapers of German have run stories highlighting the lawsuit lodged by Vietnamese French Tran To Nga against 14 multinational chemical companies that produced the toxic chemicals sprayed by the US army in Vietnam during the war, affirming that the plaintiff and her supporters are not deterred by the ruling of a French court that the case fell outside its jurisdiction.
At the virtual conference on the situation in Iraq and the operation of the UNAMI (Photo: VNA)
New York (VNA) - Vietnam supports a
free and fair election in Iraq,
with the participation of people from all walks of life, including women and
youths, Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the
United Nations (UN), has affirmed.
Attending a virtual conference of the UN Security Council on the situation in
Iraq and the operation of the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) on May 11,
Quy said Vietnam backs the Iraqi government’s efforts to prepare for the
upcoming elections, and stands ready to discuss Iraq’s request for the UN
Vietnamese-French citizen
Hanoi (VNA) - The
Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/dioxin (VAVA) on May 12 issued a statement regarding the Crown Court of Evry City in France’s
May 10 ruling on
Vietnamese-French citizen Tran To Nga’s lawsuit against US firms
that manufactured the toxic AO defoliant used by US forces during the war in Vietnam.
The court said it did not have jurisdiction to judge
a case involving the US Government’s wartime actions, ruling that the US firms were
acting on orders from the US Government which was engaged in a “sovereign act”.
VAVA’s statement emphasised that the court made
By Syndicated Content
By Yiming Woo and Sarah Meysonnier
PARIS (Reuters) â An elderly French-Vietnamese woman vowed on Tuesday to pursue her legal fight to obtain compensation for health problems which she says were caused by exposure to the toxic herbicide âAgent Orangeâ during the Vietnam War.
Earlier this week, a French court rejected a lawsuit filed by 79-year old Tran To Nga against 14 chemical companies, but she told reporters she would appeal.
âI am disappointed, I am angry, but I am not sad,â said Tran To Nga, whose news conference was broadcast on Reuters TV.
âWe are going to carry on because our cause is just. Truth is on our side,â she added.