US weapons will not be sold to Vietnam until the country reverses its "backward movement" on human rights, said US senators on Friday.
Following a recent visit to Vietnam, the US delegation "specifically stated to the Vietnamese that our security relationship will be directly impacted by the human rights issues", said John McCain, who was a member of the delegation.
McCain added,
"There has not been progress on human rights issues, in fact there has been some backward movement on it."
"There's certain weapons systems that the Vietnamese would like to buy from us or receive from us and we'd like to be able to transfer these systems to them, but it's not going to happen unless they improve their human rights record,"
