BURMA NOT TO BOW TO US PRESSURE

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BURMA NOT TO BOW TO US PRESSURE
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Rangoon,  May 3: Burma's military vowed on Saturday that it would not
change  its current political  and economic course  despite recent US
economic  sanctions which bar new American investment in the country.

Secretary  one of the ruling State  Law and Order Restoration Council
Lieutenant  General Khin  Nyunt was quoted  in the  official media as
saying Burma was confident of overcoming the latest hurdle imposed to
the  SLORC of being behind the latest diplomatic setback for Rangoon.

The  United  States imposed  economic  sanctions on  Burma  in April,
banning  new investment by  American firms,  s  a condemnation of the
military  regime's alleged human rights abuses and its suppression of
the pro-democracy movement led by Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

"Destructionist  groups within the country  are employing various way
to  destablise the nation,  to  jeopardise the nation's political and
economic  development  and  to  cause  difficulties  in international
relations,"  Mr Khin  Nyunt was  quoted as  saying at  a meeting with
local authorities in Hakha township,  375 km north west of Rangoon on
Friday.

"As  the government can overcome all  these obstacles,  it has no big
problem,"  he said.  "The (US) economic sanctions will have no result
for  the US  as they expect  nor will they  affect Burma."Burma would
march onward to reach its objectives, e added.

Meanwhile, the SLORC vice chairman said at another function at Bahtoo
township,  about 312 km north east of Rangoon, that there was no need
for Burma to be shaken by the latest sanctions.

"A western power has come to impose economic sanctions on Burma.  But
the SLORC government need not tremble at their sanctions and need pay
no  attention ....  The nation has stood on its own self reliance for
years  since  before the  military government  came into  power," the
vice-chairman said. (Ruter)

The Asian Age 4 May 1997

News and Information Bureau All Burma Students League.

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