>From: "Bill Howard" <bill@wispsal.fsnet.co.uk> >Subject: International lawyers demand US compensate Vietnam >Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 > >International lawyers demand US compensate Vietnam > >The International Association of Democratic Lawyers has launched a >campaign demanding >compensation from US authorities for the consequences of their actions in >Vietnam >during the war. >The International Association of Democratic Lawyers held its 15th >conference in >Havana, Cuba in the presence of nearly 1,000 representatives of 50 >countries. The >five-day conference ended on October 20 with the release of resolutions on >various >issues, including the demand that US authorities compensate Vietnam. > >Vietnam was represented at the conference by a delegation headed by Luu >Van Dat, vice >president and general secretary of the Vietnam Lawyers' Association. > >The Vietnamese delegate gave the participants a detailed assessment of the >effects of >Agent Orange sprayed by the US in Vietnam during the war. He urged the US >government >to help Vietnam overcome the after effects of Agent Orange and to >compensate those >Vietnamese people affected by the poisonous chemical, just as it did for >US veterans >who suffered after exposure to the spray. > >Vietnamese lawyers also raised their voices against the abuse of embargo as a >political weapon to lay pressure on some sovereign countries. They >reaffirmed that >human rights were fundamental to the language of international law and >that no force >in the world could use human rights as a pretext to violate human rights. >(VNA)
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