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Australian rights commissioner
- Subject: Australian rights commissioner
- From: moe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 20:12:00
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