Vietnam President hails Thai-Vietnamese relationship
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HANOI, Nov 28 -- Vietnamese President Troung Tan Sang has hailed the strong diplomatic relations between Thailand and Vietnam which will enjoy their 40th anniversary in 2016, a Thai government spokesman said.

Spokesman Yongyuth Mayalarp said President Sang expressed his satisfaction during a meeting with visiting Thai Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha at the presidential palace in Hanoi on Thursday.

Gen Prayut is making a two-day official visit to Vietnam, his first after becoming Thai prime minister on August 25, aimed at familiarising himself with the leaders in Hanoi.

Both countries are members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

Mr Sang commended Thailand in signing the 2014-2018 strategic partnership with Vietnam, making Thailand the only ASEAN member with which Thailand has such an accord in the grouping, said Mr Yongyuth.

Gen Prayut later called on Nguyen Sinh Hung, chairman of Vietnam’s National Assembly, who expressed satisfaction with the warm relations between parliaments of the two countries, said Mr Yongyuth.

Gen Prayut also told Mr Hung that Thai members of parliament will attend the 132nd Inter-Parliamentary Union General Assembly to be held in Hanoi next March and Apri, and that he wants to see close cooperation between lawmakers of the two nations, according to Mr Yongyuth.

The Thai prime minister and his delegation will return home later Friday after concluding official visits to Laos and Vietnam. (MCOT online news)


-- TNA 2014-11-28

Congratulation from the communist leader, who oppresses his people, and cares little for human rights, free elections, the right to demonstrate, and free speech. Wow. That means alot. Oh, wait a minute. All this sounds a bit familiar.

Vietnam’s human rights record remains weak in many areas. The government suppresses virtually all forms of political dissent, using a broad array of repressive measures. Freedom of expression, association, and public assembly are tightly controlled. Religious activists are harassed, intimidated, and imprisoned. State-run drug rehabilitation centers exploit detainees as forced laborers making goods for local markets and export. The criminal justice system lacks independence and operates under the direction of the government and party.

Gen Prayut later called on Nguyen Sinh Hung, chairman of Vietnam’s National Assembly, who expressed satisfaction with the warm relations between parliaments of the two countries, said Mr Yongyuth.

do they hand-pick the national assembly in Vietnam?

Vietnam’s human rights record remains weak in many areas. The government suppresses virtually all forms of political dissent, using a broad array of repressive measures. Freedom of expression, association, and public assembly are tightly controlled. Religious activists are harassed, intimidated, and imprisoned. State-run drug rehabilitation centers exploit detainees as forced laborers making goods for local markets and export. The criminal justice system lacks independence and operates under the direction of the government and party.

I am sure a lot of posters could read this and think the writer was referring to any of the Thaksin Shinawatra governments.

Vietnam’s human rights record remains weak in many areas. The government suppresses virtually all forms of political dissent, using a broad array of repressive measures. Freedom of expression, association, and public assembly are tightly controlled. Religious activists are harassed, intimidated, and imprisoned. State-run drug rehabilitation centers exploit detainees as forced laborers making goods for local markets and export. The criminal justice system lacks independence and operates under the direction of the government and party.

I am sure a lot of posters could read this and think the writer was referring to any of the Thaksin Shinawatra governments.

given the current Thai 'government', one has to wonder how you come up with such comparisons while ignoring the elephant in the room.

Vietnam’s human rights record remains weak in many areas. The government suppresses virtually all forms of political dissent, using a broad array of repressive measures. Freedom of expression, association, and public assembly are tightly controlled. Religious activists are harassed, intimidated, and imprisoned. State-run drug rehabilitation centers exploit detainees as forced laborers making goods for local markets and export. The criminal justice system lacks independence and operates under the direction of the government and party.

I am sure a lot of posters could read this and think the writer was referring to any of the Thaksin Shinawatra governments.

given the current Thai 'government', one has to wonder how you come up with such comparisons while ignoring the elephant in the room.

I am not ignoring anything, but you seem to be ignoring the fact that your beloved Shin parties were guilty of many of the things you accuse the current government of doing.

The other thing you like to ignore is the fact that this current government would not be in power now if Yingluck's government had have done the right thing by the country. In many other countries had they acted in the way they did they would all be in prison now.

The anti-government protesters did not just wake up one morning and say "Hey, let's protest against the government to the point where the military steps in and launches a coup"................Yingluck's government caused it, does the Amnesty Bill and the Rice Scam ring a bell ?

Stop complaining about a government that is doing more good for the country than the previous Shin parties ever did. Stopping the redshirt killings on the streets and paying the farmers was something the Shins were never going to do.

Vietnam’s human rights record remains weak in many areas. The government suppresses virtually all forms of political dissent, using a broad array of repressive measures. Freedom of expression, association, and public assembly are tightly controlled. Religious activists are harassed, intimidated, and imprisoned. State-run drug rehabilitation centers exploit detainees as forced laborers making goods for local markets and export. The criminal justice system lacks independence and operates under the direction of the government and party.

I am sure a lot of posters could read this and think the writer was referring to any of the Thaksin Shinawatra governments.

given the current Thai 'government', one has to wonder how you come up with such comparisons while ignoring the elephant in the room.

I am not ignoring anything, but you seem to be ignoring the fact that your beloved Shin parties were guilty of many of the things you accuse the current government of doing.

The other thing you like to ignore is the fact that this current government would not be in power now if Yingluck's government had have done the right thing by the country. In many other countries had they acted in the way they did they would all be in prison now.

The anti-government protesters did not just wake up one morning and say "Hey, let's protest against the government to the point where the military steps in and launches a coup"................Yingluck's government caused it, does the Amnesty Bill and the Rice Scam ring a bell ?

Stop complaining about a government that is doing more good for the country than the previous Shin parties ever did. Stopping the redshirt killings on the streets and paying the farmers was something the Shins were never going to do.

you do live in a dream world, don't you.

The anti-government protesters did not just wake up one morning and say "Hey, let's protest against the government to the point where the military steps in and launches a coup"................

well, yes, that is about the way it went for Suthep and the others. The best part is that the obvious was acknowledged by the anti-democrat himself.

'beloved Shin parties' - well they are not 'mine', but they were elected and that is a key point that you and other junta cheerleaders just flat out ignore. An elected government is about self-governance and coups are about removing that right from the people - and as in this case, that removes many other rights along with the right to self-governance.

Finally your little detail about the rice payments - did you never notice how hard the PDRC worked and protested to make sure that the rice farmers would not get paid? I mean that was just one of their most obvious and hypocritical manoeuvres. Of course with the word 'democrat' in their name, another would have been the opposition to elections....

As for accusing any of the previous elected governments of the same level of human rights violations that are in place in Vietnam or, now, in Thailand, is beyond ludicrous... but it does happen every day here. I guess that is why you guys are junta cheerleaders.