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Subject: Just another FLOP!!! Reuters-U.S. supports European mission to

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If it was a flop, then say so, if it did any good, prove it! It looks
like another flop sure enough! Dont overlook the fact that TOTAL FINA's
CEO Thierry Desmarest was on a plane last week to Moscow hamming it up
with the French prime minister Jospin and the French finance minister,
at the same time!!! Cozy little bunch of state supported oil-supported
genocide à la française. Why dont the Europeans send a mission to TOTAL
headquarters, first!!! And make sense of this if you can, a few days
before, or after, Jospin, french prime minister was with Pierre Mauroy,
former french prime minister who presided at November's Socialist
International conference in Geneva, where
TOTAL was most definitely singled out and sanctioned in the Burma
declaration and resolution. Politics is NOT helping Burma, not French
politics, not this way! And now the newspapers are jumping for joy,
anglo saxon papers like the IHT, that financial rag of the rich, and the
french press, on how "dazzling" and what a "well-bred gentleman" the CEO
of TOTAL is, so great, tough and ambitious. AND NOT A SINGLE WORD IN ALL
THE PRESS ABOUT TOTAL AND  BURMA. GET IT? At least the Washington Post
this week, and the IHT slammed constructive engagement, in their
editorials, but then why dont they put their money where their mouth is
and slam this company straight on! Because words sell newspapers and win
votes, but the money, oh. Lets see the OIT actions take on some solid 
force in the near future. Its too early to say whats going to happen
with TOTAL and ELF. The french are dazed, in sort of shell shock again.
But the socialist government is pushing the deal through, the same
goverment that should be on the side of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, but is
clearly not helping her where she has asked to be helped. First the
FRench back the junte, now the french government clearly publicly backs
the oil and gas company that defies her and is sweeping the political
class, in great disarray, along in a wave of hysteria and of the new
french capitalism. To tell you the truth, its gutless, and sickening.
But it looks like Desmarest and the FRench government are going to ram
this down the French public throats, and drink up their champagne for a
new era in the year 2000. The fight is far from over, and we are in it
up to our necks. Stay alert. More coming...


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TIN KYI wrote:
> 
> U.S. supports European mission to Myanmar
> 05:33 p.m Jul 07, 1999 Eastern
> WASHINGTON, July 7 (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday threw its
> support behind a European Union mission to promote human rights and
> democracy in Myanmar but said it saw little hope of imminent change in the
> south-east Asian state.
> 
> ``We support the discussions by the special European mission which has
> arrived in Burma for talks intended to encourage Burma to improve its dismal
> human rights performance,'' State Department spokesman James Foley told
> reporters.
> 
> ``We call on Burma to improve its human rights record by stopping such
> practices as forced labour, extra-judicial and arbitrary executions, rape,
> torture, mass arrests, forced relocation and denial of freedom of
> expression,'' he said.
> 
> Foley said he believed the EU mission now in Myanmar, formerly named Burma,
> was intended to encourage human rights and a dialogue between the opposition
> and the ruling military and not, as some critics have said, to promote
> economic ties.
> 
> Washington, like the EU, imposes sanctions on Myanmar because of its brutal
> suppression of the opposition National League for Democracy, whose landslide
> win in the 1990 general election was disregarded by the military.
> 
> Asked whether there were any signs that the military rulers might be
> softening their stand, Foley said: ``I personally have not seen anything
> recently that indicates any change in their consistent stonewalling in this
> regard.''
> 
> He added: ``We support the fact that the EU is willing to go there and to
> sit down and discuss these issues with Burma. That message needs to be
> constantly reinforced with the Burmese authorities.''