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Germany-Burma : Bonn protests Burma
- Subject: Germany-Burma : Bonn protests Burma
- From: moe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 19:59:00
Subject: Germany-Burma : Bonn protests Burma visit rejection for German politician
Germany-Burma : Bonn protests Burma visit rejection for German politician
BONN, March 20 (AFP) - The German government
formally protested Thursday to
the military regime in Burma against its refusal
to allow a prominent German
politician to visit the country.
Foreign ministry spokesman Martin Erdmann said
that on the instructions of
Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel the Burmese
ambassador in Bonn, U Tun Ngwe, had
been summoned to the ministry.
At the same time the German ambassador in
Rangoon, Wolfgang Wiesner, had
registered a protest with the Burmese government
asking it to think again.
Count Otto Lambsdorff, a leading member of the
governmental Free Democratic
Party and a former economy minister, had wanted
to visit Burma in his capacity as
head of the FDP-backed Friedrich Naumann Foundation.
But he was told that he could not make the
visit, as he intended among other things
to meet with the opposition figure and Nobel
Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu
Kyi.
A condition of his being allowed to visit was
that he should not meet with
opposition figures.