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US Criticizes Rangoon



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International Herald Tribune
March 9, 1994

ON DISSIDENT, U.S. CRITCIZES RANGOON
By Stephen Greenhouse
New York Times Service

Washington - The United States has expressed dismay that a
leader of the Burmese military junta has ruled out...talks
with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the imprisoned democracy
campaigner and Nobel peace laureate.

[...]

The head of the Burmese military intelligence, Lietunant
General Khin Nyunt, said in an interview Sunday that
face-to-face talks between him and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
might eventually be possible...

He described her attitude as "counterproductive"...

U.S. officials suggested that they might step up sanctions
against Burma because of the military's failure to open a
dialogue with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. The United States
has...suspended all economic and military aid, imposed an
arms embargo, ended some low tariffs that had applied to its
products, and blocked the International Monetary Fund and
World Bank from making loans to the country.

State Department officials had hoped that the military's
decision to let Representative William B. Richardson...and
an American journalist, meet last month with Daw Aung San
Suu Kyi was a signal that the general was ready to begin a
dialogue or negotiations with her.

[...]

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was put under house arrest in Rangoon
in July 1989 as part of a crackdown against the democracy
movement. Her political party...won national elections the
following spring by a landslide, but the military voided the
results.

[...]