Press release, Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom John V. Hanford III: “…Today the Department of State transmitted to Congress the 2006 Designations of Countries of Particular Concern, or CPCs, for Severe Violations of Religious Freedom. Secretary Rice designated one new CPC, Uzbekistan, and re-designated seven countries which were on the CPC list last year: Burma, China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Eritrea, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Sudan. This year, as a result of many positive steps taken by the Government of Vietnam over the last two years, Vietnam was not re-designated…”