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Burma to be focus on ASEAN summit.
Burma to be focus of ASEAN summit
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November 29, 1996
Web posted at: 2:00 p.m. EST (1900 GMT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuter) --
The heads of government of 10
southeast Asian nations gathered in
Jakarta, Indonesia, for an informal
summit Saturday expected to focus
on Burma's bid to join the ASEAN
club of nations.
The Burmese military government's crackdown on the
pro-democracy movement of Nobel laureate Aung San
Suu Kyi
has led many Western nations and human rights
activists to call on
the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
to delay the
move.
ASEAN members are Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the
Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Burma,
Cambodia
and Laos are attending, for the first time, as
observer nations.
[CNN, 29 November 1996]
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