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Bangkok Post News (4-2-99)





<bold>Burma's anti-drugs drive wins

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	The government has hailed Burma's narcotics suppression efforts as being
in line with international attempts to tackle the drug problem   and
helpful to Thailand's own drive against traffickers.


	A foreign Ministry statement drew attention to rd cent news reports
about the prosecution of people involved in narcotics-related trade, the
purge of opium plantation areas.


	The statement also pointed to wire service reports about the arrest of
five drug traders and the seizure of 50 kilogrammes of heroin,more than
500,000tablets of amphetamines,as well as chemicals and equipment the are
used in narcotics production at Tachilek near the Thai-Burmese border.



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<bold>Don't let Rangoon junta come to Berlin, urges student group 

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	Bangkok-Exiled Burmese students yesterday urged Europe to maintain its
hardline stance against the junta in Rangoon and refuse visa to military
officials wanting to attend talks in Berlin next month.


	The All Burma Students Democratic Front urged "the European Union to
maintain its tough stance on Burma at the Asean-EU Ministerial meting."


	It said the European(EU),which is reportedly considering softening its
long standing ban on visas for junta officials to allow the meeting to go
ahead, could not ignore the continuing deterioration of human right in
Burma.


	"The reported recent offending of the EU's policy on Burma contrasts
with the increasing severity of the junta's approach to the pro-democracy
opposition in Burma,"the front said in a statement. 


	Thai Foreign Minister Surin Pitsuwan was quoted as saying in  newspaper
here that Burma's Foreign Minister Win Aung had agreed to discuss any
subject,including human rights,at the talks with his European
counterparts._AFP



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