Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-09-26-Speech-3-259"
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"As Parliament’s rapporteur on the free trade agreement between the EU and ASEAN, I have made it clear in all my meetings with ASEAN trade ministers and officials that Parliament would strongly resist any concessions to the current Burmese military dictatorship.
The events of the last few days, where peaceful protest led by Buddhist monks has been met with teargas and bullets, have made an awful situation worse.
I had the privilege of visiting Aung San Suu Kyi in Rangoon almost a decade ago, when her house arrest was sufficiently relaxed for her to receive rare visitors. She made it absolutely clear that she, as the representative and leader of the democratically elected National League for Democracy, overthrown by the military regime, wanted the EU to impose the strongest possible sanctions.
Now the EU and Member States should lead the demand for global UN sanctions through the Security Council. Neither we, nor the people of Burma, can wait any longer."@en1
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