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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.
dannyboy;125224 wrote:Il faut comprendre de quoi l’on parle, un DIR (Detailed Impementation Review) n’est pas une enquête pour déterminer s’il y a eu corruption parmi les fonctionnaires vietnamiens. C’est une évaluation des implémentations des projets du World Bank (et ils y trouvent des irrégularités). Ils évaluent aussi s’il y a corruption parmi leurs propres fonctionnaires. Leur pouvoir d’investigation est tout à fait insuffisant. Aucun moyen de vérifier les comptes bancaires des fonctionnaires vietnamiens par exemple.Leur pouvoir d’investigation est tout à fait insuffisant. Encore un argument massue hien?
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Bravo ,les enquêtes des journalistes vietnamiens parce qu’ils chargent le GVT sont d’un professionnalisme à tout épreuve 😆 alors l’enseignement du journalisme là-bas notamment sur le plan de l’éthique comme l’enseignement supérieur en général est loin des standards occidentaux .PMU18 avait un budget total de 2 milliards de dollars si un milliard était détourné c-a-d 50% de son budget,cela aurait affecté le nombre des projets financés avec l’aide de la World Bank et de la Banque du Japon
Or il n’en était rien hormis les 258.000 dollars utilisés dans l’achat des voitures de luxe
Donc l’incident du cimetière et le chiffre de 1 milliard sciemment surévalué ne sont que de la propagande anti PCVQuote:Vous comprendrez mieux si vous pourriez trouver réponse à cette question : « si Bui Tiên Dung, à lui seul, a pu dépenser 1,8M dans les paris en 1 mois, les 200 autres fonctionnaires impliqués dans l’affaire ont détourné chacun combien de million USD d’après vous ? »Non Bui Tien Dung étant le directeur du service prend la responsabilité devant la loi du détournement de la somme de 1,8 millions de dollars dans laquelle étaient compris les 258 000 dollars du Japon dépensés dans les voitures de luxe et remboursés au Japon . Vous vous rendez compte ce que représentait un milliard de dollars dans un pays qui avait en 2006-2007 moins de 90 milliards de PIB .
Tout ce que vous affirmez n’est que de la désinformation.World Bank denies any corruption in road projects
30-MAY-2007 Intellasia | Reuters30 May, 2007 – 7:01:00 AM
The investigators of the World Bank (WB) said they didn’t find any evidence of frauds or corruption at the road construction project management unit PMU 18 in two projects backed by this world financer.On May 28, ministry of transport and the country office of the World Bank in Hanoi released results of assessing the implementation of the rural transport project 2 (RTP2) and rural network improvement project (RNIP) supported by the WB.
Accordingly, the two WB-backed projects administrated by Vietnam road transport bureau, project management unit 18 (PMU18) and local-level project management units revealed unusual signs but there were no indication that officials of PMU18 did the wrong or embezzled. Before that, the WB took air the news that there were no signs that PMU18 used incorrectly the WB capital in these two projects. According to the assessment results, abnormal signs mainly occurred at PMUs at provincial level. Those include deviant behaviours, failure of following the WB procedures and pushing impact on contract engagement.
The assessments stated that the quality of some parts of construction works is below the standards, especially in the rural transport project 2. Besides, the WB pointed out shortcomings and weaknesses in bid procedures, financial management, and project implementation at different levels of management. But, according to the WB, the findings of the investigation will neither have any adverse impact on cooperation policy of the WB with the government of Vietnam nor make any changes in the WB’s assistance to facilitate Vietnam becoming a country with medium incomes.
The investigation was carried out independently between May and September 2006 by the internal affairs agency of the WB after the corruption scandal at PMU18 was exposed. Vietnam transport ministry and other agencies did neither participate in nor intervene in any stage of the investigation process.
dannyboy;125186 wrote:Ah mais oui bien sûr. Pourquoi n’ai-je pas pensé plus tôt ? Mais alors, si Bui Tiên Dung à lui seul a pu parier 1,8M, les 200 autres fonctionnaires ont détourné chacun combien d’après vous ?Sans blague, vous tapez PMU18 dans google et vous obtenez que 2 résultats ? Je vous conseille de porter plainte contre google pour discrimination. Car les autres obtiennent 10 ou 50 fois plus
Voilà les conclusions de l’enquête de la World Bank dans l’affaire PMU 18
Two Projects Managed By VRA, PMU 18 And Provincial PMUs Using World Bank Loans: Irregularities Found, But No Evidence Of Fraud Or Corruption By PMU 18 Officials
The Review shows that there is no evidence supporting allegations of fraud and corruption against PMU 18 officials. The two projects have achieved their expected results, having positive socio-economic impacts.Le texte en entier:
web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/EASTASIAPACIFICEXT/VIETNAMEXTN/0,,contentMDK:21349930~menuPK:50003484~pagePK:2865066~piPK:2865079~theSitePK:387565,00.htmlQuote:Mais il suffit de demander, voici un texte de la BBC
A court in Vietnam has sentenced a journalist to two years in jail for his reporting on a major corruption case.
The case relates to a corruption scandal in Vietnam’s ministry of transport that first came to light in 2006.
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Appearing in court, Nguyen Viet Chien appeared thinner and greyer but retained a combative spirit.
He insisted that he only ran information provided by trustworthy official sources and that, being a veteran correspondent with 20 years’ experience, he always cross-checked his stories.
« With my journalist conscience, I can say I neverhave any other purpose in mind when writing my reports but exposing wrongdoing and fighting corruption, » he said.
His son, Nguyen Tuan, said he was « extremely disappointed with the verdict. My father has fought against corruption until the end, he doesn’t deserve this sentence ».Puis d’autres textes de Asia Sentinel
It is known that PM Dung was contacted and privately expressed sympathy with the protesting editors; but there was clearly little he could do. Vietnam’s journalists are now effectively forbidden from receiving information about corruption among party members.
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One prosecutor, when cross-examining Chien, said all interviews with police sources are illegal under Vietnam’s press law because « journalists are not allowed to receive information from unauthorized sources. »
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Traditionally, it has been all very well to expose certain mid-rank party members if they have transgressed in an unseemly way and if the party has decided they are expendable; but the decision has always been taken internally by the party before the officials were exposed.
And never, under any circumstances, are central committee members or ministers to be exposed without Politburo approval. The PMU-18 affair broke that code.
Without first obtaining approval from the party leadership, the two key investigators, General Pham Xuan Quac, the head of one of the public security ministry’s investigative departments, and one of his subordinates, Lt-Col Dinh Van Huynh, fed information to the press.
The key journalists receiving the inside dope about the PMU-18 scam were Nguyen Viet Chien and Nguyen Van Hai, who were the deputy editors of two of Vietnam’s best-selling and most highly regarded newspapers, Thanh Nien (Young People) and Tuoi Tre (Youth).
This quartet – the two journalists and the two investigators – were the ones who received their comeuppance last week when the Hanoi People”s Court convicted them of « abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the state » under Article 258 of Vietnam’s Penal Code.
Their real crime, of course, had been to betray a different code, that of not exposing senior party members without first getting approval from the top
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Of course, the fact that the party boss, General-Secretary Nong Duc Manh, had been personally embarrassed by the affair because his son-in-law Dang Hoang Hai had handled work for the PMU-18 unit meant that some action against the leakers was inevitable.
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Nowadays, even foreign scholars based in Vietnam are cautious about publicly disseminating their views for fear of retribution, usually in the form of visa denials. Undaunted, party officials closed ranks and reiterated that in Vietnam, the role of the nation’s state-owned media is to protect the party and communicate its wishes to the people.
It bears noting that on June 20 this year, the deputy culture minister Do Quy Doan said that the domestic media is a force to combat « the false ideas and plans of enemy forces and other political opportunists, and to protect the ideas, agenda and fundamental leadership of the party. » It is not to expose malfeasance within the leadership and embarrass it.
The crackdown, coming as it does at the same time as a robust move against the Catholic community and labor activists and indeed any incipient anti-party line voices, reflects a triumph for the conservatives and a severe setback for the reformist movement.je ne commente pas les paragraphes sélectionnés et coupés de leurs textes originaux.
Veuillez donner leurs liens.Voilà un point de vue de l’affaire PMU18 sorti de son texte :
But there are some who think that it is about time that Vietnamese journalists reconsider their working ethics.
Hong Anh, a Hanoi resident, said he was shocked when he first heard about the detention of the journalists.
« But maybe the prosecutors have good reasons to press charges after all, » he said. « Some reporters have become so powerful, even corrupt. If they don’t like you, they could destroy your business in no time by writing negative reports. »
« And they nearly never apologise for false reporting, » he added.
Poet Bui Chi Vinh, who worked for Tuoi Tre newspaper during its early days, was even stronger with his words.
In an interview with the BBC, he said: « Anti-corruption has become a kind of modern-time mantra. Everyone is against corruption in Vietnam nowadays.
« It can be used to cover up wrong-doings, » he arguesUn autre morceau choisi:
On another blog, however, the veteran journalist, Huy Duc, offered a sober assessment. To him, the steady stream of sensational stories about the PMU 18 scandal produced errors that hitherto have been uncorrected. In Vietnamese factional politics, many powers were vested outside the judicial system, and officials “used the newspapers as a means to further their own cause”.
Je remarque que le chiffre de 1 milliard de dollars n’est toujours pas confirmé par aucun texte.L’avez -vous sorti de votre fertile imagination ?
Quote:Qu’est ce qui vous faire croire que « le cimetière de Con Dau appartenait à la paroisse » ?
Les concessions dans ce cimetière appartiennent à des familles protestataires (qui y ont enterré leurs proches). Quand on veut les déposséder de ces concessions, il fallait les dédommager correctement. Est-ce si compliqué que cela ?Oui, pour des gens habitués à respecter la loi et le deuil.Peut-être pas vous.
Si c’est pour une question de compensation ,si compensation il y a,pensez-vous que le cimetière soit un endroit approprié pour en réclamer? Au mieux on y trouve des terrassiers et le gardien,mais certainement pas les responsables de la commune. Peut_être a-t-on affaire à des gens trop bêtes pour y penser ou à des personnes qui se servent du deuil de la famille et du cercueil pour faire de la politique ? on est en plein western là.Ils sont bien pacifiques ces paroissiens.
Cliquez sur le lien puis sur la photo pour voir les paroissiens se servir du cercueil pour enfoncer l’entrée du cimetière
VIETNAM A Con Dau Catholic dies shortly after being released by police – Asia NewsVN et UE table sur un nouveau succès en 2011 11/01/2011 | 17:45:54 Vietnam+
La coopération entre l’UE (Union européenne) et le Vietnam pourrait connaître de nouveaux progrès en 2011, a estimé l’ambassadeur et chef de la délégation de l’UE au Vietnam, Sean Doyle.
En se fondant sur les accords récemment signés et la forte croissance tant des exportations vietnamiennes en Europe que des investissements européens au Vietnam, le Vietnam et l’Europe peuvent s’attendre à une année de coopération très fructueuse, a-t-il déclaré lors d’une conférence de presse donnée mardi à Hanoi.
Fin 2010, l’UE demeurait la plus grande source d’aide non-remboursable, le deuxième marché à l’exportation ainsi que le plus grand investisseur en terme d’IDE pour le Vietnam.
Le chiffre d’affaires à l’exportation du Vietnam en UE a atteint l’année dernière près de 10 milliards d’euros (plus de 12 milliards de dollars), soit une croissance de 15,9% sur 2009. Les IDE engagés par l’UE pour le Vietnam ont augmenté de 646% par rapport à ceux de 2009, selon Sean Doyle.
En outre, l’Accord de partenariat et de coopération (PCA) qui a été paraphé en octobre 2010 par les deux parties devrait être adopté en 2011.
S’agissant des APD accordées au Vietnam, Sean Doyle a indiqué que le Vietnam les avait utilisées très efficacement et que l’UE s’intéressait aux expériences du Vietnam dans leur gestion et leur emploi afin de les présenter plus largement dans le monde. Toutefois, le Vietnam étant devenu un pays de revenus moyens, les modalités de soutien de son développement sera réajustées en 2013. :Vietnam:
A cette occasion, l’ambassadeur de Hongrie au Vietnam, Laszlo Vizi, lequel représente la présidence tournante des réunions ministérielles de l’UE durant le premier semestre de 2011 à l’exception de la réunion des ministres des Affaires étrangères, a également vivement apprécié les efforts du Vietnam pour développer les activités de l’ASEM (Sommet d’Asie-Europe) durant 2009. -AVI
