EP Buram Resolution 16 September 19

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Subject: EP Buram Resolution 16 September 1999

Well, this might be interesting, we will just have to WAIT and SEE, and
it may be the only way to reverse TOTAL oil and gas support of the
junta. 

The EP: 
> I) Noting that European multinational oil companies now provide almost a
> third of the total legal foreign investment committed in Burma, and an even
> higher proportion of funds disbursed,

 "Calls again...including economic sanctions in its Common Position on
Burma"



Burma Centrum Nederland wrote:
> Adopted on 16 September 1999, Brussels
> Resolution on Burma

> The European Parliament,
> 
> - Having regard to its previous resolutions on Burma, in particular its
> resolution of 115 Aril 1999.
> 
> A) Deeply concerned at the ongoing human rights abuses committed by the
> military authorities in Burma, especially the violation of humanitarian law
> by the Burmese army in ethnic minority areas,
> B) Deploring the continuing restrictions by the SPDC on the freedom of
> movement of Aung San Suu Kyi and other NLD members, and on all other
> political parties, preventing them from functioning,
> C) Recalling that the Committee Representing the People's Parliament
> (CRPP), acting on behalf of the entire Parliament, had never been permitted
> to convene,
> D) Condemning the recent arrests of more than 150 Burmese pro-democracy
> activists, many of them of high-school age, for joining demonstrations and
> distributing pamphlets calling for a general strike on 9 September,
> E) Whereas Rachel Goldwin, a British Citizen, has been arrested in Burma at
> a pro-democracy demonstration,
> F) Whereas the arrest comes a week after another British pro-democracy
> campaigner, James Mawdslery, was sentenced to 17 years in jail after being
> convicted o f entering Burma illegally,
> G) Condemning the five-day arrest of a three-year old girl in July, held
> hostage to force her father out of hiding,
> H) Whereas in May the ILO, in a report to its Governing Body, noted that
> the SPDC has continued to inflict the practice of forced labour on the
> eople of Burma, and pointed out that it should not receive any invitation
> to attend meetings organised by the ILO,
> I) Noting that European multinational oil companies now provide almost a
> third of the total legal foreign investment committed in Burma, and an even
> higher proportion of funds disbursed,
> J) Nothing the results of the European Union fact-finding mission to
> Rangoon in July, and taking into account the fact these results will be the
> basis of the review in October by the council of its Common Position to
> towards Burma,
> K) Nothing that the council has so far not responded to Aung San Suu Kyi's
> request and has not taken any significant economic measures against the SPDC,
> L) Reiterates its condemnation of the military dictatorship in Burma and
> all human rights violations by the SPDC;
> 
> 2. Calls again on the Burmese government to guarantee the fundamental
> rights of the Burmese people, to release all political prisoners and to
> allow freedom of movement for Aung San Suu Kyi and her party members;
> 3. Calls upon the Burmese government to end immediately the widespread
> practice of forced labour and the human rights violations connected with
> it, which has been labelled by the ILO as a 'crime against humanity'
> 4. Calls on the Council to ensure that the current CFSP Common Position on
> Burma is renewed and strictly enforce, in particular with regard to the ban
> on entry visas, and moreover urges the EU Member States to refrain from
> giving transit visas to SPDC and military personnel;
> 5. Furthermore calls upon the Council and the Member States to increase
> pressure on the SPDC to instigate a dialogue with the democratic opposition
> and the ethnic minorities by including economic sanctions in its Common
> Position on Burma;
> 6. Reiterates its position that Burma should be excluded from the ASEAN-EU
> process;
> 7. Calls upon the Council to use its discussions with the ASEAB and the
> other States in the region to pressure the SPDC to enter into dialogue with
> the democratic opposition and the ethnic minorities;
> 8. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the
> Commission, the Parliaments of the Member States, ASEAN, the NLD and its
> President Mrs Aung San Suu Kyi and the Government of Burma.