EBO
News Summary:
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1. UN mission to
2. US: Visa Ban Expanded For
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UN mission to
seeing detained opposition leader Aung San Suu
Kyi, raising fears his mission
to
Razali is expected to cut his trip short if the
government refuses to allow
him to meet with Aung San Suu Kyi, who was
taken into custody after violent
clashes in northern
After talks with military intelligence
chief General Khin Nyunt and Foreign
Minister Win Aung, Razali
indicated Saturday he had not yet been granted a
meeting, but that he was still hopeful of
securing one.
"I am still discussing this with the
government," he told reporters.
But officials with the envoy in
his goals of securing a meeting and pushing
for her release.
"There is a 10 percent chance that he
can see her. It will depend on the
meeting tomorrow morning with the highest
officials," the source said, adding
that the talks would be with one of the
junta's top-three generals.
"If he doesn't he could leave as soon
as tomorrow," he said.
The source said the regime's unwillingness
to allow Razali to see Aung San
Suu Kyi, who is being held at a military
camp outside the capital, lent weight
to suspicions she was injured in the May 30
violence.
"It's very logical to think this, and
also she's the number-one witness,"
he said. "The officials still say she
wasn't hurt, but we won't be able to
verify this as long as we haven't seen her with
our own eyes."
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Visa Ban Expanded For
The
By Peter Slevin
Saturday,
The Bush administration expanded a visa
ban on
after an attack on the pro-democracy National
League for Democracy and its leader,
Aung San Suu Kyi, whose whereabouts and
medical condition remain unknown
eight days later.
Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage said the administration intends to
extend the visa restrictions to the managers and
families of
enterprises, while seeking an asset freeze and a ban
on
authoritarian country.
Armitage did not take a position on the growing
momentum in Congress for
a ban on Burmese imports. But he said in a
letter to Sen. Mitch McConnell
(R-Ky.) that the
administration is studying House and Senate sanctions bills
in light of
McConnell, a leader of the effort to
punish
better human rights behavior
from them, said the Senate would skip committee
hearings on the bill and could approve trade
sanctions as early as Tuesday.
The House bill is moving more slowly, but
McConnell predicted that President
Bush is "not going to veto the
bill" over international trade concerns.
State Department spokesman Philip T. Reeker said
the scene saw evidence of a premeditated
attack on Suu Kyi's motorcade by
"government-affiliated
thugs." State Department spokesman Richard Boucher
said yesterday that explanations offered by
Burmese authorities "lack credibility."
The new visa ban covers members of the
Union Solidarity Development Association,
part of the ruling State Peace and Development
Council, and their immediate
families. The proposed trade sanctions would ban
imports of Burmese products,
principally textiles, which last year amounted to
about $350 million, or about
25 percent of
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