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16/2/98: LETTER TO UN SEC-GEN (REPO



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LETTER TO U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL (16/2/98)
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Dr U Ne Oo
18 Shannon Place
Adelaide SA 5000
Australia

February 16, 1998.

Mr Kofi Annan
Secretary-General
U.N. Secretariat
United Nations New York N.Y. 10017
United States of America

Dear Secretary-General:

re: THE LACK OF PROGRESS TOWARDS
    RECONCILIATION AND DIALOGUES IN BURMA

I firstly thank U.N. Secretary-General for your efforts in
regards to Burma at the informal ASEAN meeting at Kuala Lumpur
last December and also for sending the Assistant Secretary Mr de
Soto to Rangoon late last month. In spite of these best efforts
by the United Nations and international community, the Burmese
military authorities show no signs of moving towards
reconciliation and dialogue. I therefore urge the United Nations
and international community to step up pressures on the military
government of Burma.

I should particularly like to draw the Secretary-General's
attention to some aspect relating with the U.N. Officials'
visits to Burma, such as the one made by Assistant
Secretary-General Alvaro de Soto to Rangoon recently. I believe
that many of these U.N. Officials' visits are being used by
military junta as a machenism to mitigate international
community's serious concerns about situation in Burma, which is
to delay the possible effective actions on Burma. The
international community must not, therefore, consider the
SPDC/SLORC receiving visit by various U.N. Officials --
including Human Rights Special Rapporteur -- as a sign of
Burmese military junta making progress in co-operating with the
United Nations. Only when the SPDC/SLORC make substantial
concessions with regards to humanitarian problems and political
dialogue with the opposition, must we consider that as making a
genuine progress.

I therefore urge U.N. Secretary-General and international
community to make following measures as a response to the lack
of progress on the situation of human rights in Burma:

1. expell the U.N. representative of SPDC/SLORC from the United
Nations;

2. send the Human Rights Special Rapporteur to Burma to
investigate the human rights abuses documented in his report
A/52/484;

3. U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees to make further
representations concerning with situation of refugees and
displaced people from Burma.

I am also concerned about the possibility of transferring a
large amount of revenue from oil companies to military
government from Burma-Thailand natural gas project. A delay of
8 to 12 months to this gas pipeline project is desirable. I
therefore appeal those in business community as well as
international political circle to co-operate regarding with this
matter.

In closing, I thank the Secretary-General for your kind
attention to these matters. Your continuing efforts on the
situation of Burma are greatly appreciated by the people of
Burma.

Yours respectfully and sincerely,
Sd. U Ne Oo.

copy to:
1. Hon. Madeleine K Albright, Secretary of State, U.S.Department
of State, Washington D.C.20520, U.S.A.

2. Ms Sadako Ogata, U.N.High Commissioner for Refugees, Palias
des Nations, Case Postale 2500, CH-1211 Geneva 2 Depot,
Switzerland.

3. H.E. Bill Richardson, U.S. Ambassador to the UN, 799 United
Nations Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10017, U.S.A.

4. Hon. Alexander Downer, Minister for Foreign Affairs,
Parliament House, Canberra ACT 2600, Australia.

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