Bush Urged To Initiate Multi-Party Talks On Burma
- By Ethnic Nationalities Council
- Published 08/8/2008
- Politics
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Chinland Guardian
7 August 2008 – Bangkok: A day before the US president leaves for Beijing, the Ethnic Nationalities Council (ENC) urges President Bush to initiate a "Multi-Party Talk on Burma" as a means of pushing forward the democratic reform agenda.
During a two-hour lunch meeting between the US President and Burmese activists in Bangkok, ENC General Secretary Dr. Lian Hmung Sakhong suggested such a "Multi-Party Talks" should be instituted along the lines of the "Six-Party Talks on North Korea" and the "Quartet of International Mediators for the Middle East," or a combination of both formulas.
The parties to such talk would involve the US, the UN, China, India and ASEAN countries, and Burma's military junta, according to the ENC plan.
"Please convey our proposal for the "Multi-party Talks on Burma" to President Hu Jintoa of China during your meeting with him in Beijing," pleads ENC General Secretary. Bush is due in Beijing for the 2008
Olympic Games in China, which kicks off tomorrow.
"A concerted multilateral approach is necessary if a Tripartite Dialogue between the military regime, the 1990 election winning parties and the ethnic nationalities are to be realized for a peaceful resolution to Burma's political problems," he adds.
Among the delegates present at the historic meeting included Lwe Aye Naing of ethnic Palaung and Charm Tong of the Shan Women Action Network (SWAN), who had previously met Mr. Bush at the White House in 2005.
Last year, a delegation of Burma's ethnic nationalities, was received at the White House by First Lady Laura Bush.
The meeting came one day a head of the 20th anniversary of the infamous 8.8.88 when the Burma Army brutally slaughtered thousands of Burmese people who were peacefully demanding democracy.
ENC Information Team
P.O. Box (49)
Chiang Mai University P.O
Chiang Mai 50202
Thailand
http://www.encburma.org/enc/enc_info.htm
7 August 2008 – Bangkok: A day before the US president leaves for Beijing, the Ethnic Nationalities Council (ENC) urges President Bush to initiate a "Multi-Party Talk on Burma" as a means of pushing forward the democratic reform agenda.
During a two-hour lunch meeting between the US President and Burmese activists in Bangkok, ENC General Secretary Dr. Lian Hmung Sakhong suggested such a "Multi-Party Talks" should be instituted along the lines of the "Six-Party Talks on North Korea" and the "Quartet of International Mediators for the Middle East," or a combination of both formulas.
The parties to such talk would involve the US, the UN, China, India and ASEAN countries, and Burma's military junta, according to the ENC plan.
"Please convey our proposal for the "Multi-party Talks on Burma" to President Hu Jintoa of China during your meeting with him in Beijing," pleads ENC General Secretary. Bush is due in Beijing for the 2008
"A concerted multilateral approach is necessary if a Tripartite Dialogue between the military regime, the 1990 election winning parties and the ethnic nationalities are to be realized for a peaceful resolution to Burma's political problems," he adds.
Among the delegates present at the historic meeting included Lwe Aye Naing of ethnic Palaung and Charm Tong of the Shan Women Action Network (SWAN), who had previously met Mr. Bush at the White House in 2005.
Last year, a delegation of Burma's ethnic nationalities, was received at the White House by First Lady Laura Bush.
The meeting came one day a head of the 20th anniversary of the infamous 8.8.88 when the Burma Army brutally slaughtered thousands of Burmese people who were peacefully demanding democracy.
ENC Information Team
P.O. Box (49)
Chiang Mai University P.O
Chiang Mai 50202
Thailand
http://www.encburma.org/enc/enc_info.htm