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Subject: Re: 9999 Letter/Email Appeal Campaign to French President Jacques

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Dawn Star wrote:> 
> Dear Friends, Activists and Readers,
> 
> Now is an auspicious time (9999)for ALL of you to send a letter of
> appeal to French President Jacques Chirac, urging him, as The French
> President is the highest executive representative of the French people
> (the President in France's Fifth Republic is an elected official by
> direct ballot). He has far more authority and power than either the
> French Senate or the National Assembly.
> 
> I suggest some of your demands to PRESIDENT CHIRAC should be for him to
> use his executive constitutional authority to stop French engagement of
> the Yadana pipeline and other industrial gas and energy projects in
> partnership with the Burmese military dictatorship; to firmly support
> the CRPP call for dialogue and reconciliation with all democratic
> parties;  and to affirm the French nation's support of the Universal
> Declaration of Human Rights in Burma today.
> 
> If any of your would like to prepare a standard letter please feel free
> to go ahead and do it as many of us do not have much available time and
> not to repeat the effort unnecessarily.
> 
> Please name your organisation and be sure to include a mailing address
> for a response.
> 
> Address your letters:
> 
> MONSIEUR LE PRESIDENT JACQUES CHIRAC
> PALAIS ELYSEES
> PARIS, FRANCE
> 
> Be sure to send an email to me here at Euro-Burmanet, and I will put
> assemble and deliver a package directly to the Presidential Palace, in
> addition to taking excepts from selected letters for a brief section in
> the upcoming book on TOTAL in BURMA, soon to be published in French.
> 
> This is an opportunity for you to speak out directly in appeal to the
> French President. Be sure to ask for a response.
> 
> Deadline  9-6-99.
> 
> Please be forthcoming with any suggestions. It would be good to have as
> many groups and organisations participating, as well as concerned
> individuals.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Dawn Star
> Euro-Burmanet
> Worldwide TOTAL Boycott
> Free Burma Coalition