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Norway sends diplomat to Myanmar ov (r)



We appeal to the diplomats accredited in
Rangoon to march in unison to the
Myanmar Foreign Ministry.  This has
become necessary because Burmese
demonstrators would be gun down or
immediately be arrested.  The Diplomats
should use their status to tell the
people that they support the wish of
the people of Burma.


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Date: Thursday, August 06, 1998 6:33 AM
Subject: Norway sends diplomat to
Myanmar over Aung San Suu Kyi


>OSLO, Aug 5 (AFP) - Norway is concerned
about the well-being of Nobel
>laureate and pro-democracy leader Aung
San Suu Kyi and has sent a foreign
>ministry official to Myanmar, Foreign
Minister Knut Vollebaek told the
>Norwegian daily Aftenposten Wednesday.
>
>The official, Erling Rimestad, who is
Norway's charge d'affaires in
>Singapore and who is accredited to
Rangoon, will try to contact Aung San
Suu
>Kyi, Vollebaek said.
>
>"We have understood that Aung San Suu
Kyi is ill, and we have not been able
>to get in contact with her. We are very
concerned and worried about her,"
>Vollebaek said.
>
>The pro-democracy leader, who won the
Nobel peace prize in 1991, is reported
>to be in poor health. She remained in
her car in a tense six-day stand-off
>with the authorities last week when she
was prevented from visiting
>provincial party officials.
>
>It was the third time she had been
stopped trying to leave the capital in
>three weeks.
>
>According to Vollebaek, Rimestad will
also meet with officials from other
>countries on the Myanmar issue,
including the United States and the
European
>Union.
>
>"We are going to try to put together a
joint protest in Rangoon so that the
>diplomats can go to the Myanmar foreign
ministry as a group," Vollebaek said.
>
>Aung San Suu Kyi's party, the National
League for Democracy, won elections
>in 1990 by a landslide, but the ruling
junta has refused to hand over power.
>
>The NLD leader, who was kept under
house arrest from 1989 to 1995, has
>announced plans for a ceremony on
August 8 to commemorate the 10th
>anniversary of a bloody clampdown on a
pro-democracy uprising in 1988.
>
>On Tuesday, six Nobel prize winners
urged Myanmar's military leaders to
>restore democracy, and called on them
to engage in "constructive dialogue"
>with Aung San Suu Kyi.
>
>The appeal was signed by Nobel peace
prize winners Lech Walesa (Poland,
>1983), Desmond Tutu (South Africa,
1984), Oscar Arias Sanchez (Costa Rica,
>1987), Jose Ramos-Horta (East Timor,
1996) as well as Nobel literature
>winners Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)
and Derek Walcott (Saint Lucia).
>
>