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NEWS - U.S. Sanctions Against Myanm
U.S. Sanctions Against Myanmar to Remain in Place
AP
18-MAY-98
GENEVA (AP) The United States will maintain economic
sanctions
against Myanmar as long as the Asian nation is guilty of
large-scale
political repression, President Clinton said Monday.
Clinton issued a notice keeping in place an order he issued a
year
ago banning new investments by Americans in Myanmar, formerly
known as Burma. He declared a national emergency then to
impose
the sanctions.
The president said the declaration will remain in force "as
long as the
government of Burma continues its policies of committing
large-scale
repression of the democratic opposition in Burma."
Clinton issued the order during a brief speechmaking visit
here at the
end of a six-day European trip.