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SLORC will not sign anti-personnel



Subject: SLORC will not sign anti-personnel mines treaty


"Myanmar will not sign the treaty to ban anti personnel mines", said the 
SLORC's representative during the colloquium on anti personnel 
mines(APMs) at Sydney on 17 July, 1997.

U Ko Ko Sein from Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Burma needed land 
mines for her defence purposes. He said that Burma was situated between 
India and China. Since these two countries were not signing the treaty, 
Burma was not going to sign it, he said.

Among South East Asean nations, Phillipines, Cambodia and Malaysia have 
expressed their support to ban the use, stockpiling, transfer and 
production of APMs. Worldwide, 100 countries have expressed their support.
The treaty to ban APMs will be signed at Ottawa, Canada in December this 
year.

Apart from U Ko Ko Sein, Lt. Col. Soe Thein from Ministry of Defence and 
U Hau Do Suan, First Secretary of Burmese Embassy in Canberra 
attended the conference organised by Internation Campaign to Ban Land 
Mines(ICBL-Australia and New Zealand). Governmental and non governmental 
delegates from 27 countries of Asia Pacific region attended this conference.