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Malaysia Muslim Youth Movement defe
Subject: Malaysia Muslim Youth Movement defer entry of Myanmar into ASEAN.
Abim: Defer entry of Myanmar
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KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Muslim Youth Movement (Abim)
yesterday protested against Myanmar's ruling State Law
and Order
Restoration Council (SLORC) for its actions to
suppress the Muslim
community there and urged the Malaysian Government to
defer its entry
into Asean.
Abim secretary-general Ahmad Azam Abdul Rahman said such
suppression showed SLORC had no respect for the
constructive
engagement policy advocated by Asean.
"Myanmar's impending entry to the grouping should be
postponed until the
SLORC fully subscribes to the policy."
Earlier, Ahmad Azam led a group of Abim members to
hand over a
protest note to Myanmar's ambassador to Malaysia U Saw
Htun but he
was not in his office.
They attempted to pass it to an embassy official but
failed. They then
placed the note in the embassy's letter box.
[Star, 28 May 97].
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