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White House's press statement on re



Subject: White House's press statement on release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

Attn: Burma Newsreaders
Re: White House's statement on release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
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                    THE WHITE HOUSE



             Office of the Press Secretary

                (Nashville, Tennessee)



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For Immediate Release                     July 10, 1995





           STATEMENT BY THE PRESS SECRETARY





     President Clinton welcomes the announcement 

earlier today by the Burmese authorities that Aung San 

Suu Kyi has been unconditionally released after almost 

six years of house arrest.  The President, who has 

repeatedly called for the Nobel Prize winner's freedom 

since the beginning of his Administration, expressed 

gratification that the efforts of the international 

community had finally secured her release.  If her 

release enables her to participate freely in a genuine 

process of political reconciliation leading to the 

installation of a democratically-elected government, 

today's development would mark a major milestone 

towards the restoration of peace and stability in 

Burma.



     Even while welcoming her release, President 

Clinton expressed concern about a number of serious and 

unresolved human rights problems in Burma, including 

the continued detention of other political opponents, 

the failure to permit the International Red Cross to 

visit prisoners and the ongoing military campaigns 

against a number of ethnic groups.



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