HANOI: US President Barack Obama told communist Vietnam on Tuesday that basic human rights would not jeopardize its stability, in an impassioned appeal for the one-party state to abandon authoritarianism.
In a sweeping speech, which harked back to the bloody war that defined both nations and also looked to the future, Obama said that “upholding rights is not a threat to stability.”
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