Media Release, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (r)

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Subject: Re: Media Release, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, to the Australian Parliament

Dear friends

Regarding the media release of Daw ASSK to Australia Parliament clearly
suggests
that NCGUB's lack of performance in pressuring Australia government in sending
its HR Commissioner to Yangon.
This is what NCGUB has a duty to do as an exile government representing
suffering  people of Burma.
Obviously they did not do their job as they are entitled to and as well as
their representative in Australia who wears many hats just to look great.

I wonder what they are doing everyday for the last 10 years.


Regards

panyoma/syd


Amanda Zappia wrote:

> Media Release
> Embargoed, 22nd September 1999, 4.00 PM EST
> Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
> Addresses the Australian Parliament
>
> 22nd September 1999, Today
>
> For the first time in the long battle for democracy in her country, Daw
> Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma has singled out an individual country, Australia.
>  Never before has the Noble Peace Prize Laureate and General Secretary of
> the election winning, National League for Democracy addressed an individual
> nation and commented on their policy toward Burma.  In a video smuggled out
> of Burma, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi cautions the Australian Government over
> policies and contacts with the military dictatorship of Burma.  "Sometimes
> we are a little concerned that the policies of the Australian Government
> may not be such that would hasten the process of democratisation in Burma",
> She said.
>
> Mindful of the failure of the international community to respond quickly
> enough to protect the people of East Timor, the Australia Burma Council
> urges the Australian Government to listen to the people of Burma and act in
> accordance with their wishes. While all attention is on East Timor at this
> time, and rightly so, not one day goes by when the people of Burma do not
> suffer the same brutality and injustice. The people of Burma deserve to be
> heard and they deserve protection just as the people of East Timor do.
> Timorese leader, Xanana Gusmao, said in June, that once East Timor is free
> from Indonesian military occupation, there would be a "moral obligation" to
> assist Burma's democracy movement. "We will try to help Aung San Suu Kyi,
> whom we admire and who has inspired us...it is a question of feeling the
> same suffering as the Burmese people," Gusmao said.
>
> While Australia considers policy options in the case of Burma it is
> important to ensure that the views of the people of Burma are heard and
> respected.  As the National League for Democracy won 82% of the seats in
> election in 1990, they, the NLD, speak on behalf of the majority of the
> people of Burma.  The parliament of Burma has been denied the right to
> convene for 9 years.  For this reason the NLD have set up a committee to
> act on behalf of the parliament until the official parliament can be
> convened.  The NLD appeals to the world to recognise the committee as
> genuinely representative of the people of Burma.
>
> Date:                   Wednesday 22nd September
> Place:                  1 S 5, Parliament House, Canberra, ACT
> Agenda:         4.00 Introduction, Senator Vicki Bourne, Host
> 4.05 Response by the Minister, Alexander Downer
> 4.10 Response by Shadow Minister, Laurie Brereton
>                 4.15 Comments by Dr Myint Cho, Burma Office, Sydney
>                 4.20 Screening Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
>         4.30 Press Conference, with Speakers and U Tin Tut, NLD Elect
>
> Media Information: Amanda Zappia, (02) 6297 4801,
> Media Spokesperson: Dr Myint Cho, (02) 6297 4801
>
> Working on behalf of the:
> National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB)
> Federation of Trade Unions, Burma (FTUB)
> Australia Burma Council (ABC)
>
> PO Box 2024, Queanbeyan, NSW 2620
> Tel: (612) 6297 7734    Fax: (612) 6297 7773