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Australian rights commissioner



Subject: Australian rights      commissioner to visit Burma 


Friday, July 30, 1999 Published at 10:07 GMT 11:07 UK 


             World: Asia-Pacific

             Australian rights
             commissioner to visit Burma 



             Australian officials say the country's human rights
             commissioner, Chris Sidoti, will visit Burma next week. 

             He will investigate the possibility of setting up Burma's
             first national human rights commission. 

             The visit was agreed at talks on the sidelines of the
             ASEAN conference in Singapore last week. 

             The Australian Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer,
             described it as only the first step in an incremental
             process to improve Burma's human rights record. 

             From the newsroom of the BBC World Service