Suu Kyi Asks Investors at Davos to Help Burma (audio, slide show)

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Address to the participants in the World Economic Summit, DAvos, 28 January 2011...DAVOS — Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi reached out Friday to the world?s business elite to invest in her isolated, impoverished country — but carefully. "We yearn to be a part of the global community," the Nobel Peace Prize laureate said in an audio message to the World Economic Forum, where leading world executives and government officials are gathered in this Swiss Alpine resort. "We have already missed so many opportunities because of political conflicts in our country over the last 50 years," she said. Defense spending in military-run Burma, one of the poorest nations in Southeast Asia, overwhelms spending on education and health, to the detriment of its 55 million people, she said

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"The Irrawaddy"

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2011-01-29

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2011-01-29

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English

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