EBO BURMA NEWS, 10 JULY 2003
News Summary:
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1. Japan PM Koizumi, Malaysian Deputy PM
Abdullah agree to pressure
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Japan PM Koizumi, Malaysian Deputy
PM Abdullah agree to pressure
Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah
Ahmad Badawi agreed at talks Thursday
to pressure
"The current situation is not
desirable," Abdullah said, according to a
Japanese official.
"I want
affairs, but an expression of concern as a friend
and neighbour," he said in
comments translated into Japanese.
Foreign ministers at an ASEAN meeting in
of not mentioning conditions in its member
countries.
Koizumi stressed at the 30-minute meeting
that
democratise in order to receive new Japanese aid,
after
last week it would be cut off.
"In order to create an environment
that would enable us to provide such
assistance,
official.
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