“Mọi người có quyền tự do ngôn luận; quyền này bao gồm tự do tìm kiếm, tiếp nhận và phổ biến mọi loại tin tức và ý kiến, không phân biệt ranh giới, bằng truyền miệng, bản viết hoặc bản in, bằng hình thức nghệ thuật, hoặc thông qua bất cứ phương tiện truyền thông đại chúng khác theo sự lựa chọn của mình” (Điều 19,2 Công ước Quốc tế về các quyền dân sự và chính trị, Liên Hiệp Quốc biểu quyết năm 1966, Việt Nam xin tham gia năm 1982). (Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice.)

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LETTER OF ALLIANCE
FOR DEMOCRACY & HUMAN RIGHTS
FOR VIET NAM
TO LEADERS OF APEC NATIONS

Viet Nam, 15 October 2006

The Honorable,

We are writing to introduce you our Alliance named “Alliance for Democracy & Human Rights for Viet Nam” self-established in Viet Nam on Sep 16th, 2006.

Alliance for Democracy & Human Rights for Viet Nam is warmly saluting APEC SUMMIT in November in Viet Nam. On this occasion, Alliance for Democracy & Human Rights for Viet Nam would like to call upon Leaders of APEC Nations who love freedom and democracy to pay more attention and to do what possible, on the basic of Declaration and Convention of UN on Human and Civil Rights, to speed up the progess of democratisation for Viet Nam.

We acknowledge that where sees Freedom and Democracy the people can be better served. Unfortunately, Viet Nam now is a stage on which The Communist Party has all right to choose actors and directs by its own way and the people are always in a state of being threatened. They just only comply with orders of the Communist Party. We consider that many current problems of Viet Nam such as backwardness, decadence and unjustness are resulting from mal-management, bureaucracy and corruption of the authorities under the present one-party regime.

In order to resolve these problems, many Vietnamese have launch a struggle for transforming this regime into a plural, free, and democratic regime. Although many peaceful democratic fighters have been suspected, investigated, beaten, tortured, detained by the authorities, the movement for freedom and democracy still continues developing more popularly and strongly.

On this chance, we would like to say thankful words to those who have been helping and supporting Alliance for Democracy & Human Rights for Viet Nam.

We sincerely appreciate your concern, contribution and your support for our cause !
On this occasion, we would like to enclose the Announcement of the Formation of the Alliance.

And we wish great success for The Conference !