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04Oct96 BURMA: BURMA TO STOP ISSUING VISAS TO U.S. CITIZENS. 11:47 GMT  
RANGOON, Oct 4 (Reuter) - Burma said it will stop issuing entry visas to
U.S. citizens from Friday in response to an American travel ban on Burmese
military government leaders and their families to the United States.
The ban was announced at a news conference by the director general of the
department of political affairs in the foreign ministry, U Khin Maung Win.  
"The U.S. government's decision to ban entry visas for Myanmar (Burmese)
leaders to their country will not be very effective because no Myanmar
leaders are visiting that country," he said.
"It is the right of every sovereign and independent nation to refuse entry
visas to their country," he said. Burma was exercising that right, he added.
U.S. President Bill Clinton, outraged by the Burmese military government's
arrest of hundreds of pro-democracy activists over the last week, signed a
proclamation on Thursday ordering the action against the Burmese leaders.
Burma detained the activists of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's
National League for Democracy to prevent a party congress planned between
September 27-29. It has released some of the detainees but continued to bar
access to Suu Kyi's Rangoon home.  
(c) Reuters Limited 1996
REUTER NEWS SERVICE


04Oct96 PHILIPPINES: MANILA SAYS ASEAN NEEDS TIME ON BURMA MEMBERSHIP. 13:06
GMT  

MANILA, Oct 4 (Reuter) - The Philippines said on Friday that the absence of
democratic reform could delay Burma's admission to the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
"You cannot have free trade unless the rule of law is in place. I also agree
that you cannot have free trade without participatory democracy," Foreign
Secretary Domingo Siazon told reporters.
ASEAN plans to set up a free trade area among its seven members.
Burma was trying to move too quickly on membership of ASEAN, which granted
it observer status in July, Siazon said.
"The velocity or speed was too fast. They only became an observer this
year," he said.
Siazon's remarks were the latest indication of a weakening in ASEAN's
customary policy of "constructive engagement" with Burma's military rulers.
Siazon and other foreign ministers of the regional grouping discussed
Burma's membership application in New York last week but came to no conclusion.
ASEAN has previously resisted international efforts to impose sanctions
against Burma for its repeated crackdowns on democracy activists, insisting
that change should come about through gentle persuasion, not confrontation.
Philippine President Fidel Ramos said earlier this week that ASEAN could
review its Burma policies at its summit later this year.
Siazon said the change in attitude towards Burma was not prompted by the
military government's recent detention of hundreds of followers of Nobel
peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
"What's happening with Suu Kyi is temporary. They're now negotiating,"
Siazon said.
U.S. President Bill Clinton on Thursday banned Burmese government officials
and their families from visiting the United States in response to the
junta's latest wave of arrests.
Burma responded on Friday by stopping entry visas to U.S. citiszens.
ASEAN groups the Philippines, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore,
Thailand and Vietnam.  
(c) Reuters Limited 1996
REUTER NEWS SERVICE


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