U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has criticized Burma's military government for being out of step with its southeast Asian neighbors on rule of law, human rights, and democracy. VOA's Luis Ramirez reports from Singapore Rice spoke to ministers attending a Southeast Asia security forum.
The meeting brought together ministers from 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN, who talked about issues including a brewing border conflict between Thailand and Cambodia and disaster preparedness in the wake of Cyclone Nargis in Burma. But it was the matter of politics that overshadowed discussions on the impoverished, military-ruled country, which is a member of ASEAN. The group is usually reluctant to criticize Burma's generals, but ASEAN chair George Yeo, Singapore's foreign minister, said ministers at the meeting had raised concerns about the generals' continued house arrest of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. "On her detention, we expressed our deep disappointment and asked for her early release, of Aung San Suu Kyi and other political prisoners," he said. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, speaking on the sidelines of the forum, said Burma is out of step with its fellow ASEAN members who aspire to the rule of law, human rights, and the development of pluralistic political systems. Rice also expressed concerns about developments in Malaysia, another ASEAN member, where authorities have put an opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim, under investigation for sodomy. Anwar was at the forefront of a major election upset that dealt Malaysia's long-ruling coalition the biggest loss of its history last March. The top U.S. diplomat urged Malaysia to ensure a transparent investigation, one that adheres to the rule of law. Also on the ASEAN ministers' agenda was a brewing conflict along the border of Thailand and Cambodia. The two countries have been preparing for possible attacks stemming from a dispute over access to an ancient temple that sits on the border.ASEAN chairman George Yeo said some ministers opposed Cambodia's decision to take the matter to the U.N. Security Council."It should not have to go to the U.N. Security council," he said. "It was not a problem just a few weeks ago. It has suddenly become a problem. Why has it become a problem?"Yeo called Cambodia's action premature and said the dispute should be handled within the region. Looming large at the security meeting was the North Korean nuclear issue. Secretary Rice held a rare meeting Wednesday with her North Korean counterpart as part of a gathering of six-party nuclear negotiations that also include China, Japan, Russia, and South Korea, on the sidelines of the forum. Thursday, the U.S. official said it is now up to North Korea move the process along by accepting verification of its nuclear activities. Rice said the declaration the North made last month on plutonium production and other activities has left questions that need to be answered. A spokesman for the North Korean delegation said all issues, including verification, can be resolved if the U.S. delivers on its promises, in keeping with the principle of action for action.North Korea has agreed to dismantle its nuclear program in exchange for food and fuel aid. Washington has also promised to remove Pyongyang from its list of state sponsors of terrorism.
စစ္အစိုးရ လမ္းျပေျမပံု ခရီးမေပါက္ႏိုင္ဟု အေမရိကန္ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီး ေ၀ဖန္
24 July 2008
အာဆီယံ ေဒသတြင္းလုံၿခဳံေရး ႏွီးေႏွာဖလွယ္ပြဲ တက္ေရာက္လာေသာ ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီးမ်ား ႏွင့္ အတူေတြ႕ရေသာ မစၥကြန္ဒုိလီဇာ႐ုိက္စ္။ဇူလုိင္ ၂၄၊ ၂၀၀၈။အာဆီယံႏိုင္ငံေတြအၾကား ဒီမိုကေရစီနဲ႔လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ရွင္သန္ျပန္႔ပြားေရးမွာျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဟာ လမ္းေခ်ာ္ထြက္ေနတယ္လို႔ အေမရိကန္ ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီးကြန္ဒိုလီဇာ ႐ိုက္စ္ (Condoleezza Rice)က ေျပာဆိုလိုက္ပါတယ္။
နာဂစ္ဆုိင္ကလုံး မုန္တိုင္းေဘးသင့္ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြ ကူညီေရး ႏိုင္ငံတကာ အကူအညီေတြလက္ခံဖို႔ အေစာပိုင္းကျငင္းဆန္ခဲ့တဲ့ ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရကို ၀န္ႀကီး႐ိုက္စ္က ျပစ္တင္႐ႈတ္ခ်လိုက္ပါတယ္။
စင္ကာပူႏိုင္ငံမွာ က်င္းပေနတဲ့ အာဆီယံ ေဒသတြင္းလံုၿခံဳေရး ႏွီးေႏွာဖလွယ္ပြဲတက္ေရာက္ေနတဲ့ ၀န္ႀကီး ႐ိုက္စ္က ဒီေန႕ သတင္းေထာက္ေတြကို ေျပာဆိုလိုက္တာပါ။
ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရရဲ႕ အဆင့္ ၇ ဆင့္ပါ ဒီမိုကေရစီ လမ္းျပေျမပံုဟာ အတုအေယာင္သေဘာမ်ဳိး ေဆာင္ေနတာေၾကာင့္ ဘယ္ကိုေရာက္မယ့္ လမ္းၫႊန္ေျမပံု မဟုတ္ဘူးလို႔လည္း ေ၀ဖန္လိုက္ပါတယ္။ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရအေနနဲ႔ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကိုအျမန္ဆံုးလႊတ္ေပးဖို႔နဲ႔ ဒီမိုကေရစီ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရးအတြက္ အာဆီယံေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြက တိုက္တြန္းၾကဖို႔ရွိပါတယ္။
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