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Intl. Court of Justice to hear Burm
- Subject: Intl. Court of Justice to hear Burm
- From: darnott@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 11:48:00
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>Far Eastern Economic Review
>June 07, 2001.
>Court to Hear Burma Brewery Case
>The International Court of Justice has decided to hear the controversial
>case of the Burmese government's 1998 nationalization of Mandalay Brewery.
>On May 16, the court, which is the United Nations' principal judicial
>organ and has its seat in The Hague, appointed a three-member tribunal of
>international law experts from the United States, Britain and France. The
>case is scheduled to open later this month. Yaung Chi Oo Trading, the
>Singapore-based company that invested $6.3 million in the Mandalay Brewery
>joint venture with the government, had vainly attempted to get its case
>heard by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' dispute-settlement
>mechanism. The ICJ's willingness to hear the case appears to have made
>certain quarters of Burma's ruling junta skittish. On May 31, military
>intelligence official Gen. Kyaw Min, recently assigned the task of
>striking a settlement, made Yaung Chi Oo's managing director, Win Win Nu,
>a do-or-die offer: Return to Burma and present her case in person to
>intelligence chief Lt.-Gen. Khin Nyunt, or be banished permanently. Until
>it was nationalized, Mandalay Brewery was Burma's largest taxpayer.
(from Tin Kyi's "Burma-related News" for 7 June 2001)
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Eastern Economic Review</b></font><font size=3D3><br>
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<blockquote type=3Dcite class=3Dcite cite><font size=3D3>The International
Court of Justice has decided to hear the controversial case of the
Burmese government's 1998 nationalization of Mandalay Brewery. On May 16,
the court, which is the United Nations' principal judicial organ and has
its seat in The Hague, appointed a three-member tribunal of international
law experts from the United States, Britain and France. The case is
scheduled to open later this month. Yaung Chi Oo Trading, the
Singapore-based company that invested $6.3 million in the Mandalay
Brewery joint venture with the government, had vainly attempted to get
its case heard by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations'
dispute-settlement mechanism. The ICJ's willingness to hear the case
appears to have made certain quarters of Burma's ruling junta skittish.
On May 31, military intelligence official Gen. Kyaw Min, recently
assigned the task of striking a settlement, made Yaung Chi Oo's managing
director, Win Win Nu, a do-or-die offer: Return to Burma and present her
case in person to intelligence chief Lt.-Gen. Khin Nyunt, or be banished
permanently. Until it was nationalized, Mandalay Brewery was Burma's
largest taxpayer.<br>
<b></b></font></blockquote>(from Tin Kyi's "Burma-related News"
for 7 June 2001)<br><br>
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