Let mother visit

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THE JOURNAL (Newcastle, UK) 
October 20, 1999, Wednesday Edition 1 

SECTION: OPINION

HEADLINE: Let mother visit 

  
   While the People's Republic of China needs to be handled with great care, 
the same need not be said of our relationships with Burma, or Myanmar as it 
is now called, especially when there are British citizens involved. 

To describe communications with the Myanmar Embassy as Kafkaesque 
is to be positively benign. 

Equitable international relations cannot be maintained without a minimal level 
of trust and acceptance of responsibility towards the citizens of other
countries 
temporarily within your boundaries. 

Myanmar is clearly not prepared to acknowledge this fundamental position. 

At the receiving end of this policy at the moment is the family of James
Mawdsley 
from Durham City who has been jailed for pro-democracy activities. 

The British Government must do everything within its power to persuade the
Myanmar 
regime to permit James's mother to visit her son. 




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