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VOA : ASEAN/BURMA- ROGER WILKISON M (r)



Re:VOA: ASEAN/BURMA- ROGER WILKISON MANILA
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Dear Friends:

Please read the attached comments from Mr Siazon carefully. I think the 
comments made by Foreign Secretary Dimingo Siazon had gone completely of 
outline. It is sad to hear that such commentary came out from someone 
who was chairing the ASEAN Ministers'/ARF meeting in Manila. ( What has 
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi done to you to say such a thing, Mr Secretary?. Or 
are you not able to stand Madam Albright? )

(1)
                      /////SIAZON ACTUALITY/////
>
>         WE HAVEN'T SEEN ANY DETERIORATION OF HER HEALTH OR HER 
>         CAPACITY TO THINK.
>
>                     /////END ACTUALITY/////


Again, I can't believe why he had to use such a word to down play the 
actual condition of health of Daw Aung san Suu Kyi especially when was 
made to stay in her car for the fourth day.  

(2)

>THE PHILIPPINE FOREIGN SECRETARY SAID THE PROCESS OF NATIONAL  
>RECONCILIATION WITHIN BURMA SHOULD BE DONE BY THE BURMESE 
>THEMSELVES.  HE SUGGESTED THAT BURMESE LIVING ABROAD WHO WANT TO 
>CHANGE THE SITUATION IN THEIR COUNTRY SHOULD RETURN HOME AND TRY 
>TO CHANGE THINGS FROM WITHIN, EVEN AT THE RISK OF LIFE AND LIMB. 

As though it was not enough that he disagreed with Madam Albright's 
expressions of her concern for the health and safety of Daw Aung San Suu 
Kyi, he also had to have an under-the-belt blow to all Burmese living 
abroad. Who asked you do that and why do you do that for?

May god have mercy on your soul, Mr Secretary.

Minn Kyaw Minn
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>Subject: VOA : ASEAN/BURMA- ROGER WILKISON MANILA
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>Voice of America
>DATE=7/27/98
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>ASEAN/BURMA 
>ROGER WILKISON MANILA
> 
>
>INTRO:  THE NINE-MEMBER ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS 
>AND ITS TEN SO-CALLED DIALOGUE PARTNERS IN THE ASEAN REGIONAL 
>FORUM HAVE ENDED A DAY OF DISCUSSIONS IN MANILA WITH STRONG 
>DIFFERENCES OVER HOW TO DEAL WITH THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN 
>BURMA.  V-O-A'S ROGER WILKISON REPORTS THE ASEAN COUNTRIES 
>INDICATED THE BURMESE QUESTION IS ONE THAT SHOULD BE SOLVED 
>INTERNALLY AND  NOT  THROUGH OUTSIDE INTERFERENCE.
>
>TEXT:  PHILIPPINE FOREIGN SECRETARY DOMINGO SIAZON --THE CHAIRMAN
>OF THE GATHERING -- INDICATED THAT MOST OF BURMA'S NEIGHBORS DO  
>NOT  AGREE WITH SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT'S 
>ASSESSMENT THAT BURMA COULD REPRESENT A THREAT TO STABILITY IN 
>THE REGION.  HE ALSO DISMISSED MS. ALBRIGHT'S EXPRESSIONS OF 
>CONCERN FOR THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF BURMESE OPPOSITION LEADER 
>AUNG SAN SUU KYI.  
>
>                   /////SIAZON ACTUALITY/////
>
>         WE HAVEN'T SEEN ANY DETERIORATION OF HER HEALTH OR HER 
>         CAPACITY TO THINK.
>
>                     /////END ACTUALITY/////
>
>MR. SIAZON SAID THE MINISTERS HAD AN EXTENSIVE DISCUSSION ON THE 
>SITUATION IN BURMA, BUT THERE WAS  NO  MENTION OF THAT DISCUSSION
>IN THE MEETING'S FINAL COMMUNIQUE.  
>
>THE PHILIPPINE FOREIGN SECRETARY SAID THE PROCESS OF NATIONAL  
>RECONCILIATION WITHIN BURMA SHOULD BE DONE BY THE BURMESE 
>THEMSELVES.  HE SUGGESTED THAT BURMESE LIVING ABROAD WHO WANT TO 
>CHANGE THE SITUATION IN THEIR COUNTRY SHOULD RETURN HOME AND TRY 
>TO CHANGE THINGS FROM WITHIN, EVEN AT THE RISK OF LIFE AND LIMB. 
>(SIGNED)
>
>NEB/RW/MMK
>
>27-Jul-98 8:51 AM EDT (1251 UTC)
>NNNN
>
>Source: Voice of America
>.
>
>


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