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"Ladies and gentlemen, Myanmar, that is Burma, is it not? Several years ago, this was more or less the reaction of one of my colleagues to the press report on the news of new natural gas deposits in the continental shelf of that South Asian country. Myanmar is currently subject to EU and UN sanctions. What is interesting is that in his report, which we have received, Sergio Vieira de Mello complains about the efforts of the military government to enshrine the role of the army in the newly drafted constitution.
Ladies and gentlemen, you have not misheard me; in 2005, one of the most fiercely criticised aspects of the situation in Myanmar is the role of the army in daily life and the imprisonment of hundreds of people on account of their political opinions. Yet if any of you were to think that we could be talking about Turkey or Afghanistan, you would be mistaken. Such things are criticised in Turkey as cautiously as though we were talking about the United States. In the case of Myanmar, we refer to the violence as intolerable, and the same is true for the treatment of ethic minorities. As far as Afghanistan is concerned, we are lost for words. Why not open accession talks with Myanmar and set up a free trade area and such like, as we are doing with Turkey? Is that pie in the sky? If so, then we are nothing but a bunch of impostors, applying different standards to different countries. Please do not take it amiss, but I shall not be voting for a resolution of this nature."@en1
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