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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-09-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Human rights2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19990916.11.4-155"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-09-16-Speech-4-1562
lpv:speaker	lp:Hanja Maij-weggen2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--1999-10-11)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (1999-09-14--2002-01-14)3 member; AFCO (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Christen Democratisch Appèl (1999-07-20--2003-09-30)3 substitute; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, in the recent summer months thousands more people have fled Burma in order to escape the violence, the enforced deportations from their own country, the forced labour and the political repression. There are now 150,000 refugees in camps, mainly in Thailand but also in Malaysia and India. Then there are a further 100,000 illegal refugees in the surrounding countries, in Australia, Europe and the United States. This summer I attended a conference in Bangkok held by an international organisation that concerns itself with Burma. I got to know many representatives of the refugees again. They feel that Europe will gradually start to forget about them and that people no longer really take the situation that has now been going on in Burma for ten years very seriously. We know that Mrs Aung San Suu Kyi has now been under house arrest for ten years and that with 80% of the Burmese people’s votes, she is the chosen president. We are aware that Burma’s Parliament was disbanded, that dozens of Members of Parliament have been killed, are in prison or under house arrest, or are among the refugees. We know that the situation is growing more serious: the Burmese government is stepping up the repression in the shadow of the events in Indonesia. In fact almost nothing is being done at the moment. Mrs Aung San Suu Kyi has appealed to the western democracies to give her more help. I want to appeal to the European Union to follow suit. A delegation of diplomats went to Burma just before the summer but came back with nothing to show for its pains. The sanctions already in force for Burma are to be extended in October and my group believes that it would be better if they were strengthened. The United States has already added an investment freeze to these sanctions. Let Europe at last show a united front for once and do the same. I notice Commissioner Kinnock is nodding. I sincerely hope that he will convey this message and our resolution to the European Council of Ministers, and that measures will at last be taken which will help to bring down the regime in Rangoon and which will enable Mrs Aung San Suu Kyi to truly feel that her actions, which are peaceful ones, are being supported."@en1

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