Dear colleagues, welcome to the 64th meeting of the Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development. Today is April 21, 2015.
We are televised today. Today we are continuing—maybe “continuing our study” is the wrong way of putting it. We have had another hearing into the human rights situation in Vietnam. That was unfortunately a meeting that suffered from some technical difficulties with the audiovisual connections. It was most unfortunate.
Today we have a second meeting, and with us today is Diem Do, who is the chairman of Viet Tan. Welcome to our subcommittee, we're very glad to have you here. I'll invite you to begin your testimony. Once you've completed your testimony, we will then turn to the members of the subcommittee to ask you questions. The length of each round of questions and answers will be determined by how much time we have left.
I'm going to ask the members of the subcommittee that if any of them have to leave early because of the fact that they have to go to a different building to please let me know. We may adjust the order in which the questions are being asked and answered in order to allow ourselves a full amount of time, while still making sure that everybody who has a question to ask gets the opportunity to do so.
With that being said, Mr. Do, I turn the floor over to you, please.