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"en.20120420.21.5-234-281"2
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"I welcome the progress that has been made in Burma over the past year, most notably the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and the free elections that took place on 1 April. Aung San Suu Kyi was bestowed with the Freedom of Dublin City in 2000 by my colleague, the then Lord Mayor, Cllr Mary Freehill, and, as Lord Mayor myself in July 2009, I opened a book of solidarity to protest against her detention under house arrest. I hope that she will soon be able to visit Dublin to sign the ‘book of freemen’ in person. The Burmese authorities should release all remaining political prisoners without delay or conditions, allow free access by international human rights bodies to Burma, and amend the 2008 Burmese constitution so as to remove the military’s role in civilian politics in the run-up to the 2015 elections. The EU is correct to suspend for one year its restrictive measures currently in place against Burma. This one-year suspension will enable the EU to continue to exert pressure on the Burmese authorities to ensure that the reform process is sustainable and irreversible."@en1
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