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Aung San Suu Kyi's Speech, Part 1



        Date: 26 Nov 94 900 JST
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EXTRACTS FROM EMPOWERMENT FOR A CULTURE OF
PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT
by Aung San Suu Kyi
For transmission, the following document has been divided into four
parts.

Part 1

Extracts from an address by the Nobel Peace Laureate and detained
opposition leader of Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi, to be presented on
her behalf and at her request by Mrs. Corazon Aquino, former
President of the Philippines, to a meeting of UNESCO's World
Commission on Culture and Development, Manila, 21 November
1994. The address was composed on the invitation of the
Commission's chairman, Mr. Javier Perez de Cuellar, former
Secretary-General of the United Nations. Aung San Suu Kyi has
been an honorary member of the Commission since it was founded
in 1992. Although held incommunicado under house arrest since
July 1989, family visits have been allowed her since 1992. In June
1992 the Commission issued a public appeal to the Burmese military
authorities to free Aung San Suu Kyi, pointing out that her
fundamental freedoms under the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, adopted by Burma in 1948, had been constantly denied.

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