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D’après l’ambassadeur Michael Michalak , les droits de l’homme se sont améliorés au Vietnam.
Il a estimé qu’à travers ses nombreuses conversations avec Mr Triet que le fossé qui existait sur le sujet entre les deux pays s’est réduit.Dans la copie ci-dessous ,il donne aussi son avis sur la société civile vietnamienne.Vietnam’s human rights have made progress: US ambassador [SIZE=-3]Tuoi Tre News[/SIZE]
US Ambassador Michael W. Michalak Photo: America – Engaging the World – America.gov
Outgoing US Ambassador Michael W. Michalak who will end his tenure and leave Vietnam later this month after three years in the Southeast Asian country addressed a farewell press conference Thursday in Hanoi.
Below is an excerpt from his Q&A session with local and international media.
What impressed you the most during your tenure in Vietnam? Have you got any message to the Vietnamese young people?
What impressed me the most is the people of Vietnam. I find that Vietnamese people are very warm and outgoing. And I very much enjoyed traveling all over this beautiful country and meeting people in the government, in private sector, in universities, and just people on the street.
I think that Vietnamese have a tremendous amount of energy and entrepreneurship, and look for ways to succeed.
And I think that is going to be essential as Vietnam goes through the middle income status and works for becoming a fully developed country.
For Vietnamese young people, I think they should learn English. It is important for economic development and for exchanging ideas between people all over the world. It is an important tool for all Vietnamese people.What is the biggest challenge to Vietnam?
If I had to name one biggest challenge, getting a world-class education system here in Vietnam is probably the biggest one.
We need people who have the intellectual tools to be able to do analysis and come up with solutions to any challenge in economics, infrastructure, political development, and so on.We are truly entering a sort of knowledge-based age so we very much need a good education system…
Educational cooperation was a top priority during your tenure in Vietnam. Will it also be true to your successor?
Education has definitely been one of my highest priorities. I think that a good educational system in Vietnam with a lot of students going to the United States and elsewhere overseas is also going to be essential for continuing the country’s development.
The new ambassador used to work for me when I was in Japan. So I know that he does consider education to be a high priority.One of the first things I would tell him, as an elder brother does to his younger, is continue the good work that we are doing on educational cooperation here in Vietnam.
How would you like to be remembered? What do you think about human rights in Vietnam?
I would like to be remembered as an ambassador who has helped improve the bond, trust, and understanding between our two countries, even while having to deal with some difficult issues and having to have some very hard conversations with the government.
We have seen some very positive things from the government of Vietnam in human rights. The nation has made progress in eliminating poverty and expanding the operations of religious groups. We have also seen some things which are negative.
I have met many times with President Nguyen Minh Triet. We talk about human right every time I meet him. And if I do not raise it, he does.
And even though there are a lot of things we do not agree on, one thing we do agree on is that it is through that kind of discussion and through that kind of frank and open interchange of ideas that we will try to narrow some of our differences now.
I am very proud to say that even though we had some very frank discussions on human rights at the end of the day we always ended up being friends.
And I also would like to say that through our dialogues on human rights and other areas, we have come to a stage when many sensitive complexes are no longer sensitive and we can discuss them freely.
As a result, we have gradually narrowed the gap, once rather wide, between us.How would you evaluate the changes in Vietnam society?
We have seen some very positive things in Vietnam. The American Bar Association which has a pride to work in Vietnam for at least 5 years has finally got an approval. In my farewell call with the Minister of Justice he said he looked forward to cooperating with them.
We have seen some religious organizations now that are allowed to do charitable work. I think that is positive.
However, Vietnam should accelerate its procedures of approving NGOs’ operations and establishment.What do you regret not doing in your term? How would you imagine the Vietnam-US relation to be in the next 15 years?
I would wish that I were able to help Vietnamese and American universities cooperate to set up an American-style university in Vietnam.
I wish that we had more money to bring more health specialists here to continue to work on HIV/AIDS and to continue to help Vietnam strengthen its own health care system.
I want Vietnam to be a strong, prosperous, and independent country in the next 15 years.
I hope that the United States and Vietnam will continue to deepen and strengthen our bilateral relationship so that we will be good partners.
Vietnam is one of the most important countries in Southeast Asia and it is important for us to be a good partner for Vietnam.Don’t be hasty,time will come and reforms will be.
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