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IMPOSE BURMA SANCTIONS NOW, SAY RIG



IMPOSE BURMA SANCTIONS NOW, SAY RIGHTS CAMPAIGNERS 

 John Aston, PA News 

PA, London, 2 December 1999. Human rights campaigners today called on 
Foreign Secretary Robin Cook to honour Labour's pre-general election promise 
to impose financial sanctions on the "brutal" military regime in Burma. 

The call came after the settling of a legal row between the Government and 
the Burma Campaign UK over the extent of the UK's powers to take unilateral
action. 

A judge was told the Government now accepted it had power to legislate 
for sanctions on British investments in Burma without first having to seek 
further clearance under EU law. 

Later a Campaign director, John Jackson, described the settlement as 
"a really positive outcome". 

He said: "This paves the way for Robin Cook to honour Labour's pre-election 
 commitment to impose sanctions against Burma. 

"The Government now accepts it is within its powers to make arrangements 
legally and politically to impose sanctions against the dictatorship in Burma, 
which the Government has always admitted is one of the most brutal in the 
world and one where the situation has deteriorated week after week, month
after month." 


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