CHINA SUPPORTS BURMA GROUP OF FRIENDS IF BURMA SUPPORTS AND PARTICIPATES

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"...MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Affairs Division Deputy Director Sun Xiaobo on November 29 told PolOff that China is willing to consider various proposals in the UN conducive to helping Burma solve its current problems. Specifically, China can support a Burma "Group of Friends" or "Core Group" in the UN (reftel), but only if the Government of Burma supports the proposal and participates in the group. China?s experience in the Six-Party Talks (on denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula) has shown that it is very important that the "concerned government" participate in any mechanism to solve an international problem, Sun said..."

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US Embassy, Beijing, via Wikileaks

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2007-11-29

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2011-09-06

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