Quốc hội châu Âu đòi hỏi Việt Nam thực hiện nhân quyền

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22/10/2008: Quốc hội châu Âu ra nghị quyết kêu gọi EU tạo áp lực để Việt Nam phải thực hiện việc tôn trọng nhân quyền và những quyền tự do căn bản khác, trước khi ký kết Hiệp ước hợp tác với Việt Nam.

Nghị quyết được thông qua tại phiên họp của Quốc hội châu Âu ở Strasbourg hôm thứ tư, với 479 phiếu thuận trên 21 phiếu chống.

Nghị quyết kêu gọi Uỷ ban và Hội đồng châu Âu đòi hỏi Việt Nam thực hiện nhân quyền theo những thoả thuận hiện hành. Châu Âu cần yêu cầu Việt Nam chấm dứt ngay sự vi phạm có hệ thống những quyền dân chủ và nhân quyền, trước khi ký kết những hiệp ước mới.

Nghị quyết của Quốc hội châu Âu tố cáo sự bất dung tôn giáo của nhà cầm quyền Việt Nam, kêu gọi Hà Nội lập tức trả tự do cho tất cả những người bị giam tù, cầm giữ vì bày tỏ ý kiến chính trị và tôn giáo một cách ôn hoà.

Số người này bao gồm hơn 300 người Thượng theo đạo Tin lành, cũng như những người Khmer Krom, tu sĩ Phật giáo, những người Công giáo, Cao đài, Hòa Hảo và những người hoạt động chính trị, dân oan khiếu kiện về nhà đất cùng với các lãnh đạo công đoàn.

Nghị quyết cũng kêu gọi hành pháp châu Âu đề nghị Việt Nam xét lại đạo luật buộc những người bất đồng ý kiến về chính trị và tôn giáo vào tội hình sự, chấm dứt việc kiểm duyệt và kềm chế báo chí trong nước, kể cả internet và blog cá nhân.

Quốc hội châu Âu còn lên án Việt Nam về việc giam giữ những ký giả viết bài chống tham nhũng, việc công an Hà Nội bắt giữ và hành hung ký giả Ben Stocking của Mỹ.

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Vietnam: MEPs want progress on human rights before cooperation accord is signed

Relaciones exteriores - 22-10-2008

In a resolution on EU-Vietnam relations, Parliament calls for Vietnam to be pressed to observe human rights and various key freedoms before a new Partnership and Cooperation Agreement with the EU is finalised.

According to the resolution, which was adopted by 479 votes to 21 with 4 abstentions, freedom of assembly and of the press as well as internet access are severely restricted in Vietnam, while religious groups and ethnic minorities - such as Catholics, Buddhists and the Montagnard and Khmer minorities - suffer discrimination and persecution.

Better implementation of human rights under existing accord needed

Looking, firstly, to the current EU-Vietnam cooperation agreement, Parliament stresses that "the human rights dialogue between the European Union and Vietnam must lead to tangible improvements in Vietnam" and "asks the Council and the Commission to reassess cooperation policy with Vietnam, bearing in mind Article 1 of the 1995 Cooperation Agreement, which states that cooperation is based on respect for democratic principles and fundamental rights". It calls on the Commission "to establish clear benchmarks for the evaluation of the current development projects in Vietnam in order to ensure their compliance with the human rights and democracy clause".

New agreement not to be finalised until rights violations stop

Secondly, MEPs urge the Commission and the Council, in the current negotiations for a new Partnership and Cooperation Agreement, "to raise with the Vietnamese side the need to stop the current systematic violation of democracy and human rights before the finalisation of the agreement".

In particular, Parliament, which has a consultative role in the conclusion of the new agreement, wants Vietnam to be asked:

- to cooperate actively with UN human rights mechanisms, by inviting the Special Rapporteur on Religious Intolerance to visit Vietnam;

- to release all people imprisoned or detained for the peaceful expression of political or religious beliefs;

- to allow independent religious organisations to freely conduct religious activities without government interference;

- to repeal provisions in Vietnamese law that criminalise dissent and certain religious activities on the basis of imprecisely defined ‘national security’ crimes;

- to end the Vietnamese Government’s censorship and control over the domestic media.

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EU should review Vietnam ties due to rights abuses: MEPs

22 October 2008

(STRASBOURG) - The European Union must reassess its cooperation with Vietnam and insist that Hanoi end its "systematic violation of democracy and human rights," the European parliament said Wednesday.

"Human rights dialogue between the European Union and Vietnam must lead to tangible improvements in Vietnam," the EU parliamentarians said in a text adopted overwhelmingly by 479 votes to 21.

The assembled MEPs called on the European Commission, the EU's executive arm, "to reassess cooperation policy with Vietnam... based on respect for democratic principles and fundamental rights."

Amid negotiations with Hanoi on a new Partnership and Cooperation Agreement, the MEPs, meeting in Strasbourg, called for the new deal to "include a clear human rights and democracy clause... to raise with the Vietnamese side the need to stop the current systematic violation of democracy and human rights."

They denounced in particular religious intolerance, and called for the immediate release of "all people imprisoned or detained for the peaceful expression of political or religious beliefs,"

These included more than 300 Montagnard Christians, as well as Khmer Krom Buddhist monks, Catholics and adherents of the Cao Dai religion as well as democracy activists, land rights petitioners and trade union leaders, the parliament said.

It also called on Hanoi to repeal laws that "criminalise dissent and certain religious activities" and to end the Vietnamese Government's censorship and control over the domestic media, including the internet.

So far this year "several Vietnamese journalists have been arrested or sanctioned for reporting on official corruption, and, on 19 September 2008, the Associated Press Hanoi bureau chief Ben Stocking was arrested and beaten by police for covering a peaceful rally of Vietnamese Catholics in Hanoi," the parliamentarians charged.

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Source: http://eubusiness.com/news-eu/1224700321.35