EBO Burma News, 9 June 2003
News Summary:
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1. UN Envoy to Leave
2. ILO chief calls for release of
3.
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UN Envoy to Leave
of
Aung Saan Suu Kyi will leave the country Monday
without seeing the detained
Nobel peace laureate, a source close to U.N. envoy Razali
Ismail said Sunday.
"He will go back to
Rizali
was expected to leave
International concern has intensified over the health and whereabouts of
the
pro-democracy leader since a deadly clash between her supporters and those of
the
junta on May 30 as Suu Kyi was touring a provincial town in the north.
Earlier Sunday, an aide to the envoy said Razali
would on Monday meet ruling
junta
chief Senior General Than Shwe, who was out of
to
be back in time for the planned meeting. It was at that time Razali would find
out
whether he would be allowed to see Suu Kyi.
But U.N. sources said Razali's orders from
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan
were
to meet Suu Kyi and leaders of her opposition National League for Democracy,
and
said he would cut short his mission and leave
were
denied.
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ILO chief calls for release of Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi
Monday for the release of
special
envoy Razali Ismail was in
there.
"I call on the governement of
her
and other leaders and to guarantee their freedom," said ILO director
general
Juan Somavia at the ILO's
annual general assembly being held here.
"The detention of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has created a climate of
uncertainty
and
intimidation," he added.
The ILO and
measures
to bring an end to forced labour in
at
this year's ILO general assembly, which began last Tuesday.
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The
By Richard S. Ehrlich
sanctions
amid attempts in the
its
detention of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
laid
the groundwork for cooperation with the governments and 2 billion people
in
along
the
"There is no evidence we are worried about sanctions. Not that we
want them,
but
we are not afraid of them, either because we have lived for 26 years on our
own
before, and we have very good neighbors around us and
we can simply trade
and
exchange relations with our close, good neighbors,"
said
ambassador
to
"We have the two largest countries of the world on either side, who are happily
trading
and exchanging all kinds of technical, transportation, security measures
[with
British Broadcasting Corp. in an
interview.
A special U.N. envoy failed yesterday to meet Mrs. Suu Kyi or secure her
release,
despite
international criticism and the threat of sanctions.
Envoy Razali Ismail,
on the third day of his five-day mission, said he was still
pressing
the generals who moved Mrs. Suu Kyi to an unknown location after
a
bloody clash in northern
"I am still in the process of making my case," Mr. Razali said.
Much of northern
invest
there while using
Gen. Shwe, in a rare trip abroad, spent six days in
Chinese financial and military aid.
more
than 40
MiG-29 fighters to
tough
after unleashing bloody military crackdowns that mirrored each other almost
one
year apart:
was
preceded by
Exploiting
up
to
Nagaland
to
capital,
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