A leading US senator wants Burma sanctions lifted

Apr 4th, 2009

According to AFP news

Jim Webb, who heads the United States Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on Asia, said the United States needed an “aggressive diplomatic posture” on Myanmar but one that was more “constructive.”

“Certainly the way that we approach it now I don’t believe has had the results that people want it to have,” Webb, a member of Obama’s Democratic Party, told a luncheon at the Council on Foreign Relations.

“What I think we should be doing in Burma is trying to open up diplomatic avenues where you can have confidence builders … and through that process work toward some way where you can remove sanctions,” he said.

Webb said any diplomacy between the United States and Myanmar should closely involve other countries, particularly members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) which includes Myanmar.

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One Response to “A leading US senator wants Burma sanctions lifted”

  • #1 George Than Setkyar Heine Says:
    April 19th, 2009 at 6:06 am

    You can’t get anything for free in America or elsewhere in this world, can you?
    If Than Shwe wants sanctions lifted he should first release Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and all political prisoners in Burma and sit at a table and hold a meaningful dialogue. Of course the dialogue should be based on the results of the 1990 elections also.
    In that case, the sanctions will go away also.
    What Senator Webb needs to do at the moment is to talk Than Shwe into abandoning his farce 2010 elections like 11 US senators have just asked the South Korean diplomat heading the UN to do as a first step. And everything will fall into place eventually trust me.
    Your profound and substantial help in Burma’s case would be greatly appreciated I promise.

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