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Friday October 27 7:34 AM ET
Vietnam Decries Call for Clinton to Meet Dissidents
HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam's police newspaper on Friday described
a call for U.S President Clinton to meet dissidents when he
visits Vietnam next month as unreasonable and irrelevant.
The Cong An Nhan Dan (People's Police) newspaper said the call
had been made in an overseas Vietnamese newspaper Ngay Nay
(Today).
``That request is unreasonable and irrelevant,'' the Hanoi paper
said adding that all those in jail or under surveillance in
Vietnam had been charged and convicted according to the law.
They included people who had plotted against the Communist regime
and undermined national unity ``under the guise of religion or
'free intellectuals,''' it said.
The article was the latest to appear in the state press slamming
calls for Clinton to press for an improvement in Hanoi's human
rights record during his mid-November visit.
Earlier this week Hanoi, described such a call by five U.S.
senators, including Vietnam veterans John McCain and Charles
Robb, as interference in its internal affairs.
Human rights groups say that while Vietnam's rights record has
improved in recent years, with the release of tens of thousands
of political detainees and re-education camp inmates, dissidents
were now subjected to less overt harassment.
This includes constant surveillance and controls on freedom of
movement or ability to work and an ever-present threat of
imprisonment for those who go too far in challenging the
authority of the ruling Communist Party.
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