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2007-06-06 22:49:53 -

WASHINGTON (AP) - A lawmaker who has been pressing Vietnam for human rights improvements said Wednesday that a senior Vietnamese official had pledged to release three dissidents this month.
Democratic Rep. Earl Blumenauer, who resigned recently as chairman of the U.S.-Vietnam Caucus in Congress to protest rights abuses by Hanoi, met Tuesday in Washington with

Vice Foreign Minister Le Van Bang, according to Blumenauer's spokeswoman, Erin Allweiss.
Bang agreed to release the dissidents before a June 22 visit of Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet to Washington on, Allweiss said. Bang did not specify names of the dissidents Vietnam intended to release, but Blumenauer's office was trying to obtain that information......