VIENTIANE, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- The United States and Laos have agreed to a new comprehensive partnership as U.S. President Barack Obama committed here Tuesday in a speech to doubling assistance to efforts to help survey and remove tens of millions of unexploded bombs and explosive ordnance (UXO).
The announcement to increase funding to 90 million U.S. dollars over three years to remove the danger of UXO was made in a speech delivered by Obama to an audience in Vientiane's National Culture Hall during his visit, the first by a U.S. president to the Southeast Asian country.
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