Tema destacado del Viernes, 28. Septiembre 2007

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The EU at loose ends over Burma

The repression of the protest movement is increasingly intense in Burma. Buddhist monks have been demonstrating against the military regime since mid August. Monasteries are locked shut this September 28th and officially nine people have been killed by the military force since Wednesday. How can Europe react in order to make Rangoon loosen its iron grip on the country?

La Libre Belgique - Bélgica

Facing the Burma crisis, "European consternation is dramatic", according to Philippe Paquet in his editorial. "The EU is paying the price for its 'engagement policy', which was supposed to make the Burmese generals more amiable. The generals' refusal to dialogue with Aung San Suu Kyi or even give him residency status should have opened the eyes of Europeans a long time ago. There is thus something pathetic about this appeal to China asking it to exercise pressure on the junta. As is if a non-democratic country could exhort another to change its governmental methods! ... The rare tool Europeans have is the ASEAN - Association of Southeast Asia Nations - which, by accepting to be joined by Burma in 1997 jeopardized the quality of its relations with the EU." (28/09/2007)

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Upsala Nya Tidning - Suecia

The newspaper calls for further EU sanctions against the military regime in Burma: "The EU and the US decided to impose sanctions on Burma [in 1997], but the impact of the EU sanctions is limited because France has considerable interests in the country's oil and gas industry. Measures of this nature can only undermine a dictatorship in the long term; in an acute crisis they tend to have the effect of strengthening a regime. Sweden's government must whole-heartedly support the demands for further EU measures. One option would be to link sanctions against the generals' interests abroad [for example freezing their assets] with the promise of new investments - under the condition that the country is democratised. Solidarity with those who are fighting for democracy must always remain a basic European principle." (28/09/2007)

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Le Nouvel Observateur - Francia

Sarah Halifa-Legrand interviews Valérie Niquet, director of the Asian department of The French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), on the use of sanctions against Burma. "Sarkozy's first declaration demanding the withdrawal of French investment in Burma, which mainly concerned Total, was an audacious but naïve demand, being very difficult to put in practice. It was probably a means of responding to the French population's emotional reaction towards the situation in Burma. ... The withdrawal of investments, sanctions, basically the strategy of marginalising the regime, is nothing new and we can see the results today: they actually made things easier for China. A power far less scrupulous about human rights has taken over. ... New sanctions will not change the situation so long as Beijing doesn't join in." (28/09/2007)

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Die Presse - Austria

Christian Ultsch criticises China: "China wasn't even willing to sign a UN Security Council declaration rebuking the Burmese army for its suppression of the monks' protests, much less approve sanctions... Yet two years ago all UN member states agreed that each government is responsible for protecting its citizens against crimes against humanity. When a government fails to do this, the international community is supposed to intervene. Burma's government is not protecting its citizens, it's shooting them, yet the world still hasn't taken action. China is to blame for this, not the UN." (28/09/2007)

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