British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott (L) talks with his
Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Manh Cam at the start of a three-day
visit to Hanoi, December 8, 2001. Prescott, winding up an Asia-Pacific
tour, is the most senior British official ever to visit communist
Vietnam, where British energy giant BP Plc is a major investor.
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