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NEWS & UPDATES | Viet Nam promises China to keep Olympic torch safe |
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24 April 2008 AFP HA NOI -- Viet Nam on Thursday promised China the Olympic torch would be safe when it passes through Ho Chi Minh City next week, state media said, as one activist group called for peaceful protests. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung told China's visiting Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi that "Viet Nam always supports and will do its best to ensure the success of the Beijing 2008 Olympics," the Lao Dong newspaper reported. "Viet Nam will take steps to organize the Olympic relay well and safely in Ho Chi Minh City," Dung was quoted as saying after their meeting in Ha Noi. "Viet Nam regards this as its sincere contribution to the success of the Olympics. It is also concrete evidence of the building of a unified, traditional friendship between our two countries." The international torch relay has been disrupted in several cities -- including London, Paris and San Francisco -- by pro-Tibetan activists protesting China's military crackdown in the Himalayan region. In Viet Nam, where the torch arrives next Tuesday, security forces are on high alert against protesters inspired by Viet Nam's own territorial dispute with China. Both countries are among claimants to the Spratly and Paracel archipelagos in the South China Sea, issues that have stirred passions in Viet Nam, which was long under Chinese domination and fought its last border war in 1979. The communist governments in Hanoi and Beijing now stress their strong political ties, but nationalist sentiment last year drove rare demonstrations that drew hundreds of students on to the streets of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. The People's Democratic Party, one of several outlawed pro-democracy groups in Viet Nam, has issued an online call for peaceful protests against the relay, over the disputed island chains and Tibet. Vietnamese police have questioned and detained some Internet activists in the lead-up to the torch's arrival from Pyongyang. Rights group Reporters Without Borders on Wednesday called on Viet Nam to free one detained blogger, Nguyen Hoang Hai, and all prisoners of conscience.
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