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ASIA PACIFIC NGO HUMAN RIGTHS CONGR



Subject: ASIA PACIFIC NGO HUMAN RIGTHS CONGRESS (NEW DELHI)


The Asia Pacific NGO Human Rights Congress
New Delhi, 6-8 December 1996
 
Resolution on Burma
The Asia Pacific NGO Human Rights Congress-
 
Viewing with alarm the recent threats to the physical security of 
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in the context of the increased pressure being 
exerted by SLORC on the National League for Democracy,
 
Considering that the National Convention convened by SLORC on 9 
January 1993 is design to prolong and legitimize military rule 
against the will of the people as expressed in the 1990 elections, 
and thus violates the principle established in the Universal 
Declaration of Human Rights that the will of the people shall be 
the Basis of the authority of government,
 
Convinced that the best means to bring about a stable future for 
Burma would be tripartite discussions involving SLORC, the political 
opposition and the ethnic opposition .
Nothing that there has never been an internationally coordinated 
Burma policy, but simply a number of bilateral policies, with ASEAN's 
constructive Engagement, Japan's policy, the EU's critical dialogue, 
Australia's Benchmark Diplomacy and the Two Vision policy of the US 
pulling in different directions and neutralizing each other.
 
1) Urges the international community to insist that SLORC give 
clear guarantees of the physical safely of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi 
and her colleagues.
 
2)  Calls on the international community, in particular the 
government of the Asia-Pacific, to;
     
     Develop an internationally-coordinated Burma policy aimed clearly at 
the 
     restoration of democracy in the light of the 1990 election, by means 
     of a tripartite process involving SLORC, the political opposition 
     and the ethnic opposition.
     
     Create an ongoing working group to agree the goals and means of 
     such a policy. Such a group should invite suggestion and assistance 
     from intergovernmental,  gonerrment, and non-governmental bodies 
     and organizations.
         
     Drop all support of SLORC's National Convention, as being 
incompatible 
     with the aim, started in most if the UN Burma resolution to date, 
     (adopted by consensus) of resolution of democracy in the light of 
     the 1990 election.