Re: Vietnam-U.S. trade pact key for rights - dissident

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From: ThuanQ Tran <thuanqt@yahoo.com>

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>Vietnam-U.S. trade pact key for rights - dissident
>
>10:45 p.m. Aug 25, 1999 Eastern
>
>HANOI, Aug 26 (Reuters) - A top dissident in communist-ruled Vietnam
>has called
>on Hanoi and Washington
>to quickly approve a landmark trade pact, saying the deal would help
>weaken
>tight political controls in the country.
>
>Former political prisoner Nguyen Dan Que, 57, who has spent some 20 of
>the last
>23 years in jail for his political beliefs, also
>said he wanted to meet U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
>during her
>visit to Vietnam from September 5-7.
>
>``I would like to call on both sides to approve the trade deal as soon
>as
>possible...because I think this agreement...is favourable
>to the Vietnamese people ,'' Que told Reuters by telephone from
>southern Ho Chi
>Minh City.
>
>``It will help...because (the Communist Party) will lose economic
>domination
>over the Vietnamese people, it will be
>good for human rights and democracy in Vietnam,'' he added.
>
>Que, who was released from jail under an amnesty last September, is a
>former
>Nobel Peace Prize nominee and the
>only member in Vietnam of rights group Amnesty International. His home
>and
>family remain under tight surveillance, he said.
>
>Que appealed to anti-communist overseas Vietnamese, many of whom fled
>the
>country after the communist victory to end the
>Vietnam War in 1975, not to oppose the trade pact.
>
>``We need to push (aside) the communism of the past to open a  new
>political
>line. I want to speak out to support the trade
>   agreement and make steps to lead Vietnamese opinions abroad,'' Que
>said.
>
>``While inside Vietnam we want to reunite the whole population and
>forget about
>old divisions based on nationalism or
>communism.''
>
>Former enemies Hanoi and Washington, after several years of talks,
>reached
>preliminary agreement on a comprehensive trade
>deal last month. The pact would clear the way for Washington to grant
>Hanoi
>Normal Trade Relations, formerly called Most
>Favoured Nation (MFN) status.
>
>The deal is expected to be finalised in the next month, but will then
>need to be
>  approved by the U.S. Congress and Vietnam's
>National Assembly.
>
>
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