CFSP Statement on Burma

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      COMMON FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICY PRESS RELEASE: 

    PESC/95/103 

    DOCUMENT DATE: DECEMBER 15, 1995 

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    DECLARATION OF THE PRESIDENCY ON BEHALF OF THE EUROPEAN 

    UNION CONCERNING BURMA 

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    The European Union expresses its concern about the absence of open and
meaningful dialogue on constitutional reform involving all sectors of opinion
in Burma including the NLD, recently being forced to abandon the National
Convention. 

    The European Union firmly believes that dialogue will help prevent
confrontation and offers the best hope of national reconciliation. We
therefore call upon the State Law and Order Restoration Council to engage in
dialogue with all of Burma's political and ethnic groups and to increase
their efforts to achieve national reconciliation and multi-party democracy.
At the same time, we urge all parties concerned to proceed with caution and
to take all possible steps to avoid a return to violence. 

    Norway, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Letvia, Lithuania, Poland,
Rumania and Slovakia associate themselves with this declaration. 

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