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UK Sanctions ?????



So whats the current or last reported annual investment level by the UK
(Great Britain) on trade with the junta? Do they still rate second,
third, or what? 

Further, if Blair and Cook get off on boasting sympathy for the NLD and
democratic movement there, then why havent they signed for unilaterial
sanctions, like Clinton did in april 1997. Its been over two years now.
What is the UK waiting for? Shouldnt Blair and Cook do it now, while
they  still have an office.

Or please inform us of the parlimentary procedural process. If there is
a unilaterial sanctions bill in the works, where is it, and at what
stage is it, with whose support. Who is pushing the bill, or NOT pushing
it. 

For those who dont know the technicalities and whereabouts of this
legislative and political issue, please inform us. 

thank you dawn star


Roger Bunn wrote:
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>                       THE LP Conference
> 
>             "" I find it offensive that the same people should insist on
>              democracy and freedom for Europeans, but insist that
>              we should do nothing to defend the same rights of the
>              peoples of Asia, or Africa. ""
> 
>              ROBIN COOK   The Foreign Secretary Speaks!!
> 
>              After ten long years the Lockerbie bombing will be
>              brought to court. At last, the relatives of those who died
>              that night can hear the evidence in open court.
> 
> (Not sure if the Labour Party can actually lay a claim to that.
> Prefer to give credit to those who made the film about the
> little Hez B boy on an American "drug sting" with a bomb,
> wouldn't you?)
> 
>              For the first time in seventeen years since we went to
>              war with Argentina we have brokered an agreement with
>              them on contacts with the Falkland Islands.
> 
>              For the first time in a decade we have secured an
>              undertaking from the Government of Iran that it will do
>              nothing to carry out the fatwah against Salman Rushdie.
> 
> (Article 19 will be pleased)  (Maybe they will now spare Burma
> and Burma Out! a little more of their time?)
> 
>              And for the first time in forty years since the Castro
>              revolution, Britain has held talks with the Foreign
>              Minister of Cuba. I made it clear we want to see better
>              human rights in Cuba. But we have a better chance of
>              getting them, not by blockading Cuba but by making the
>              world open to Cuba.
> 
>              Isolation in the modern world carries a big penalty in the
>              global economy. We do not wish to visit isolation on any
>              country that is willing to engage with us.
> 
>              But there are some regimes so remote from our values
>              that they must be made to pay the price of isolation.
> 
>              One of these is Burma, ruled by a regime that has put
>              hundreds of elected MPs in prison and hundreds of
>              thousands of its people into refugee camps.
> 
>              As I speak, there is a service of commemoration for
>              Michael Aris, the husband of Aung San Suu Kyi. When
>              Michael knew he was dying of cancer, we asked the
>              Government of Burma to give him a visa so that he could
>              say goodbye to his wife. They refused.
> 
>              They could not make even a simple act of human
>              compassion to a dying man.
> 
>              It is because of their behaviour that this Government has
>              stopped all support for trade with Burma and
>              discouraged any tourism to Burma.
> 
>              Some people say that human rights in other countries is
>              none of our business. We can have democracy and civil
>              liberty for ourselves, but can turn a blind eye to how
>              other governments behave and a deaf ear to the cries for
>              help of their people.
> 
> Jazzus Christus Robin, is that all you can do Robin?
> We expect more, lots more, like the Commonwealth
> getting off its "nice sports butt and placing it upon Rangoon.
> 
> Rr
> 
> Follow the plea by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and the appreciations
> of HH the Dalai Lama, the Shan Democratic Union,  film maker John
> Pilger, the Free Burma Coalition,  Dennis Skinner MP, Tony Benn
> MP, Ann Clwyd MP, Congress-woman  Maxine Waters,
> parliamentarians, Socialist Workers' Party,  Dr and Welsh rugby
> star JPR Williams, sportspersons, Hendrix  bassist Noel Redding,
> S African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim,  All Burma Students
> Democratic Organisation, All Burma Students Democratic Front, Tasmanian
> Trades & Labour Council, Tim Gopsill, editor. The.Journalist@xxxxxxxxxx, and
> numerous others.
> 
> Supporting a Genuine war upon drugs and human rights abuse.
> Sydney 2000 : Burma Out!
> http://www.mihra.org/2k/burma.htm
> 
> Music Industry Human Rights Association
> http://www.mihra.org / policy.office@xxxxxxxxx
> 
> Rachel and James http:www.mihra.org/2k/rachel.htm
> 
> Founded during UN50. Mihra's roots are in music and anti-racism and
> was first in line in calling for a sports boycott of Burma for the Sydney
> 2000 Olympic Games. Mihra also advances protection of creators rights
> in an anti-cultural market, currently 93.8% monopolised by the recording
> / publishing Grand Cartel.
> 
> Major solo work "Piece of Mind". With orchestra, Holland 69. same
> time as Beatles "Abbey Road".   http://onlinetv.com/rogerbunn.html
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