Wednesday, January 13, 2010AFP
WASHINGTON — The only Vietnamese-American member of Congress said Wednesday he urged Hanoi's communist government to improve human rights on a quiet, restricted visit back to his nation of birth.
Representative Anh "Joseph" Cao, the son of a South Vietnamese army officer who fled to the United States when he was eight, paid his first trip back since 2001 as part of a trip to Asia during the holiday recess.
Cao, a longtime advocate for human rights who was joined by two fellow congressmen, said he agreed not to meet with dissidents, hold news conferences or issue press releases as a condition to enter Vietnam.
"The Vietnamese government did not want to issue a visa because they felt that my visit potentially could be, I guess you could say, explosive," Cao told a conference call after returning to Washington.
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