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". – Mr President, as Mr Coveney so eloquently described, the situation in Burma is not getting better. This House has passed enough resolutions for Aung San Suu Kyi to wallpaper the house that remains her prison.
How does this resolution get serious – because it is well past time that this House did get serious? I refer you to paragraph 1 and our request that the UN Security Council investigate sanctions against this regime. We in the EU took this decision some time ago, yet EU companies continue to play a full part, in particular in the Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise. It is argued in the grubby world of realpolitik that implementing our own sanctions policy would leave a vacuum that would be only too happily filled by the Chinese. Perhaps. So it is appropriate and commensurate that sanctions be discussed and implemented at UN level.
However, global politics should not be used as an excuse for our own double standards. We must enforce our own policy not just against the Myanmar Oil and Gas Company, but also against the Myanmar Timber Company and Myanmar Post and Telecoms, and I regret that they do not appear in this resolution.
Diplomatic pressure has demonstrably not worked against this regime. Our application of economic pressure must be stepped up and we must work with the United Nations to bring this disgraceful situation to an end."@en1
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