Burma: Joint Letter from NGOs to U.S. Administration

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"We are writing to request a meeting with you in the next week to share our strong concern regarding Secretary Clinton?s announcement that the U.S. financial services and investment bans on Burma may be lifted in the very near future. We understand that President Obama?s extension of E.O. 13047 will expire on May 20, 2012. We urge you to extend E.O. 13047 until proper safeguards are put in place. We urge the Administration to comprehensively update the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list before relaxing any business-related sanctions on Burma. While companies are eager to gain a foothold in Burma?s economy, we believe that the goal of promoting positive political reforms in Burma will be jeopardized if new investments or other business activities reward individuals implicated in mass atrocities and other human rights abuses..."

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Human Rights Watch with AFL-CIO, Freedom House, Institute for Asian Democracy, Open Society Foundations, Orion Strategies, Physicians for Human Rights, U.S. Campaign for Burma, United to End Genocide

Date of Publication: 

2012-05-15

Date of entry: 

2012-05-16

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English

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