Suu Kyi Discusses Sanctions with Diplomats

Suu Kyi Discusses Sanctions with Diplomats
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By SAW YAN NAING Friday, October 9, 2009
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Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi asked the three Western
diplomats she met in Rangoon on Friday what the aims were of the
economic sanctions their countries imposed on Burma, according to an
NLD spokesman.

The three diplomats were Australia’s charge d’ affaires, Simon Starr,
together with the Britain ambassador, Andrew Heyn, and the US deputy
head of mission. They held talks with Suu Kyi at a state guesthouse
near Suu Kyi’s home for one hour.

The meeting was the first opportunity for a substantive discussion
between Australian officials and Suu Kyi since February 2003, said the
Australian embassy in a statement.

A spokesman for Suu Kyi’s party, the National League for Democracy
(NLD), Nyan Win, said he was briefed by the diplomats in his office on
Friday evening about the meeting.

He said the diplomats said that they had been asked by Suu Kyi to
clarify what the aims of their economic sanctions were.

Suu Kyi also asked the diplomat when and how many sanction did their
governments imposed on Burma and what the consequences of sanction
are, he added.

“She [Suu Kyi] said that she wanted the data belonging to the
sanctions,” Nyan Win
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~Tim