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Burma Bans German Politician From M
- Subject: Burma Bans German Politician From M
- From: moe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 19:18:00
Subject: Burma Bans German Politician From Meeting With Suu Kyi
Dow Jones Business News -- March 19, 1997
Burma Bans German Politician From Meeting With Suu Kyi
AP-Dow Jones News Service
FRANKFURT (AP)--The Burmese
government has refused permission for a German
politician to meet opposition leader
Aung San Suu Kyi, officials said Wednesday.
Otto Graf Lambsdorff, economics chief
for the Free Democratic Party, a member of
Germany's governing coalition, has
been denied permission to meet the Nobel Peace
Prize winner, said a statement from a
foundation that Lambsdorff heads.
The Burmese government considered the
meeting 'unsuitable for political reasons,'
said the Friedrich Naumann Foundation.
In February 1996, the Burmese
military rulers had forbidden a meeting between Suu
Kyi and Germany's development aid
minister, Carl-Dieter Spranger. He then canceled
what would have been the first visit
to Burma by a member of a Western
government since the military
takeover in Burma in 1988.