PalaungNLD (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
United States’ president Barrack Obama made a personal appeal for the release of Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi during a summit between the US and Southeast Asian leaders last week. Any mention of Suu Kyi was however conspicuously absent from a 27-point statement released following the summit, which expressed only hope for “broad political and economic reforms” in Burma. It was the...
Causecast - Latest News (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
by ERICA LIEPMANN , Causecast Associate Editor For decades, the ruling military junta in Burma (Myanmar) has silenced opposition and pro-democracy voices in the country. The most well-known example - democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi was refused her rightful place in government and has been imprisoned (or under house arrest) for almost 20 years. The U.S. has maintained trade sanctions...
Morton's Musings (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Well, sort of. Apparently Obama would not speak directly to the representative of Burma's junta so he asked for her release in a voice loud enough to be heard by the representative. That's truth to power!!! Seriously, how do you negotiate with someone you refuse to address? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/burmamyanmar/6574954/Barack-Obama-tells-Burma-to-free-Aung-San-Suu-Kyi.html Barack...
News (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
President Barack Obama meets with Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev on the sidelines of the APEC summit … SINGAPORE – President Barack Obama said Sunday the United States and Russia would have a replacement treaty on reducing nuclear arms ready for approval by year's end, an announcement designed as an upbeat ending to a summit with Asia-Pacific leaders. While publicizing progress with...
Military Times - News (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
SINGAPORE — President Barack Obama said Sunday the United States and Russia would have a replacement treaty on reducing nuclear arms ready for approval by year’s end, an announcement designed as an upbeat ending to a summit with Asia-Pacific leaders.While publicizing progress with Russia on arms control — part of Obama’s agenda to advance nuclear disarmament — the president...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
SINGAPORE — President Barack Obama said Sunday the United States and Russia would have a replacement treaty on reducing nuclear arms ready for approval by year's end, an announcement designed as an upbeat ending to a summit with Asia-Pacific leaders. While publicizing progress with Russia on arms control – part of Obama's agenda to advance nuclear disarmament – the president and other...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
US president calls on Burma to release democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during meeting in Singapore Barack Obama today urged Burma to release the democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in a landmark meeting with the country's prime minister, Thein Sein. He made the demand during a meeting in Singapore with Thein Sein and nine other leaders of the Association of South-east Asian nations (Asean). White...
France 24 (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
US President Barack Obama pressed Sunday for Myanmar's military junta to release democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, during a landmark encounter with the regime's prime minister, the White House said. "He brought up the release of Aung San Suu Kyi with that government (Myanmar)," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters, as Obama met Myanmar Prime Minister Thein Sein and nine other...
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
US President Barack Obama pressed Sunday for Myanmar's military junta to release democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, during a landmark encounter with the regime's prime minister, the White House said. "He brought up the release of Aung San Suu Kyi with that government (Myanmar)," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters, as Obama met Myanmar Prime Minister Thein Sein and nine other...
The Observer (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Foreign ministry diplomat says jailed opposition leader will be allowed to organiser her party for next year's elections Burma's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, may soon be released so she can play a role in next year's election, a senior Burmese diplomat has said. "There is a plan to release her soon ... so she can organise her party," Min Lwin, a director-general in the foreign ministry,...
IntelliBriefs (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
5 Nov 2009 The US sends a high-level delegation to Burma in advance of President Barack Obama's ASEAN summit next week, but little progress is expected any time soon, Simon Roughneen comments for ISN Security Watch. By Simon Roughneen for ISN Security Watch A high-level US delegation visited Burma on Tuesday and Wednesday this week, meeting with Prime Minister General Thein Sein and with opposition...
Sify (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
US Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell - the highest ranking American official to visit military-ruled Myanmar in 14 years - met Wednesday Myanmar Prime Minister Thein Sein and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Yangon - US Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell - the highest ranking American official to visit military-ruled Myanmar in 14 years - met Wednesday with Myanmar Prime Minister Thein Sein and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Campbell, accomp...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Yangon - US Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell - the highest ranking American official to visit military-ruled Myanmar in 14 years - met Wednesday with Myanmar Prime Minister Thein Sein and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Campbell, accomp...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
&$ &$Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (5-L) link hands with ASEAN leaders during group shot before the ASEAN-Japan meeting at the 15th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit, in the seaside town of Hua Hin, some 190 km (118 miles) south of Bangkok, October 24, 2009. From (L-R) are Laos Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh, Myanmar's Thein Sein, Philippine Foreign Secretary...
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