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US Senate approves Vietnam trade pact
The US Senate has approved a landmark trade pact with Vietnam with a vote of 88 to 12, sending the bill to President George W. Bush for his signature to seal the deal.
The House of Representatives approved the trade agreement last month, but also overwhelmingly endorsed a Vietnam Human Rights Bill alongside it. The human rights bill has sparked furious protests from Hanoi.
The timetable for consideration of both bills by the Senate has been delayed by the September 11 terror attacks in New York and Washington.
Seen as the high point of a long drive for rapprochement between two former enemies, the pact was concluded by the administration of former president Bill Clinton last year and subject to annual review.
Mr Bush supported the trade deal, an important step in normalizing relations between the two nations, which established formal diplomatic relations only six years ago, in 1995.
4/10/01 13:03:37 | ABC Radio Australia News
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