UK Sanctions ????? (r)

[susuhuang@xxxxxxxxxxx]

dawn star,

uk investment numbersin burma is skewed by offshore companies in british 
virgin islands. large investment i dollar terms, but from all over, mostly 
NON-british, just funnelled thru shell compoanies. thousands of these! 
mostly  twaiwanese i thinlk? number of real british conmapanies very very 
small only premier (oil) maybe some oter little compnies -- little fish! 
money trail leads to maybe america land of free home of brave, also europe 
and taiwan,go thru offshore and see--

susu

>From: Dawn Star <dawnstar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: dawnstar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: Roger Bunn <policy.office@xxxxxxxxx>
>CC: burmanet-l@xxxxxxxxxxx, burmanet2-l@xxxxxxxx
>Subject: UK Sanctions ?????
>Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 14:27:06 +0100
>
>So whats the current or last reported annual investment level by the UK
>(Great Britain) on trade with the junta? Do they still rate second,
>third, or what?
>
>Further, if Blair and Cook get off on boasting sympathy for the NLD and
>democratic movement there, then why havent they signed for unilaterial
>sanctions, like Clinton did in april 1997. Its been over two years now.
>What is the UK waiting for? Shouldnt Blair and Cook do it now, while
>they  still have an office.
>
>Or please inform us of the parlimentary procedural process. If there is
>a unilaterial sanctions bill in the works, where is it, and at what
>stage is it, with whose support. Who is pushing the bill, or NOT pushing
>it.
>
>For those who dont know the technicalities and whereabouts of this
>legislative and political issue, please inform us.
>
>thank you dawn star
>
>
>Roger Bunn wrote:
> >
> >                                 <   <^>   <^>   >
> >                                       <  /  \ >
> >                                           ^ ^
> >
> >                       THE LP Conference
> >
> >             "" I find it offensive that the same people should insist on
> >              democracy and freedom for Europeans, but insist that
> >              we should do nothing to defend the same rights of the
> >              peoples of Asia, or Africa. ""
> >
> >              ROBIN COOK   The Foreign Secretary Speaks!!
> >
> >              After ten long years the Lockerbie bombing will be
> >              brought to court. At last, the relatives of those who died
> >              that night can hear the evidence in open court.
> >
> > (Not sure if the Labour Party can actually lay a claim to that.
> > Prefer to give credit to those who made the film about the
> > little Hez B boy on an American "drug sting" with a bomb,
> > wouldn't you?)
> >
> >              For the first time in seventeen years since we went to
> >              war with Argentina we have brokered an agreement with
> >              them on contacts with the Falkland Islands.
> >
> >              For the first time in a decade we have secured an
> >              undertaking from the Government of Iran that it will do
> >              nothing to carry out the fatwah against Salman Rushdie.
> >
> > (Article 19 will be pleased)  (Maybe they will now spare Burma
> > and Burma Out! a little more of their time?)
> >
> >              And for the first time in forty years since the Castro
> >              revolution, Britain has held talks with the Foreign
> >              Minister of Cuba. I made it clear we want to see better
> >              human rights in Cuba. But we have a better chance of
> >              getting them, not by blockading Cuba but by making the
> >              world open to Cuba.
> >
> >              Isolation in the modern world carries a big penalty in the
> >              global economy. We do not wish to visit isolation on any
> >              country that is willing to engage with us.
> >
> >              But there are some regimes so remote from our values
> >              that they must be made to pay the price of isolation.
> >
> >              One of these is Burma, ruled by a regime that has put
> >              hundreds of elected MPs in prison and hundreds of
> >              thousands of its people into refugee camps.
> >
> >              As I speak, there is a service of commemoration for
> >              Michael Aris, the husband of Aung San Suu Kyi. When
> >              Michael knew he was dying of cancer, we asked the
> >              Government of Burma to give him a visa so that he could
> >              say goodbye to his wife. They refused.
> >
> >              They could not make even a simple act of human
> >              compassion to a dying man.
> >
> >              It is because of their behaviour that this Government has
> >              stopped all support for trade with Burma and
> >              discouraged any tourism to Burma.
> >
> >              Some people say that human rights in other countries is
> >              none of our business. We can have democracy and civil
> >              liberty for ourselves, but can turn a blind eye to how
> >              other governments behave and a deaf ear to the cries for
> >              help of their people.
> >
> > Jazzus Christus Robin, is that all you can do Robin?
> > We expect more, lots more, like the Commonwealth
> > getting off its "nice sports butt and placing it upon Rangoon.
> >
> > Rr
> >
> > Follow the plea by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and the appreciations
> > of HH the Dalai Lama, the Shan Democratic Union,  film maker John
> > Pilger, the Free Burma Coalition,  Dennis Skinner MP, Tony Benn
> > MP, Ann Clwyd MP, Congress-woman  Maxine Waters,
> > parliamentarians, Socialist Workers' Party,  Dr and Welsh rugby
> > star JPR Williams, sportspersons, Hendrix  bassist Noel Redding,
> > S African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim,  All Burma Students
> > Democratic Organisation, All Burma Students Democratic Front, Tasmanian
> > Trades & Labour Council, Tim Gopsill, editor. The.Journalist@xxxxxxxxxx, 
>and
> > numerous others.
> >
> > Supporting a Genuine war upon drugs and human rights abuse.
> > Sydney 2000 : Burma Out!
> > http://www.mihra.org/2k/burma.htm
> >
> > Music Industry Human Rights Association
> > http://www.mihra.org / policy.office@xxxxxxxxx
> >
> > Rachel and James http:www.mihra.org/2k/rachel.htm
> >
> > Founded during UN50. Mihra's roots are in music and anti-racism and
> > was first in line in calling for a sports boycott of Burma for the 
>Sydney
> > 2000 Olympic Games. Mihra also advances protection of creators rights
> > in an anti-cultural market, currently 93.8% monopolised by the recording
> > / publishing Grand Cartel.
> >
> > Major solo work "Piece of Mind". With orchestra, Holland 69. same
> > time as Beatles "Abbey Road".   http://onlinetv.com/rogerbunn.html
> >                           ========================
>
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