Obama tells Vietnam that rights are 'no threat to stability'
HANOI - Basic human rights are not a threat to Vietnam's future, Barack Obama told the country's communist leadership Tuesday during an impassioned appeal for the one-party state to abandon its authoritarian past.
"It is my view that upholding these rights is not a threat to stability but actually reinforces stability and is the foundation of progress," he told delegates during a speech in Hanoi.
- AFP
