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Opening remarks at UN Headquarters year-end press conference

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon UNHQ 17 December 2010 Good morning ladies and gentlemen, Before we begin, I want to make a statement on Côte d’Ivoire. As of this morning, the situation has taken a dangerous turn. Let me say clearly and directly: any attempt to obstruct UN operations or blockade the Golf Hotel is totally unacceptable. [...]

APNewsBreak: Laura Bush speaks by phone to Suu Kyi

Updated: Dec 17, 2010 – 13:27PM Jamie Stengle  AP DALLAS -Former first lady Laura Bush, a longtime advocate for free elections in Myanmar, spoke for the first time Friday with the isolated Asian country’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who was released last month after more than seven years of house arrest. Bush told [...]

Burma Insight: 16 Dec 2010

BDC 16 Dec 2010 Yangon, December 16 — Chinese-aided Myanmar’s largest hydropower plant namely Yeywa Hydropower Plant with generating capacity of 790 megawatts together with its RCC embankment was opened yesterday at Pyin Oo Lwin town near Mandalay with pomp and splendour by Prime Minister U Thein Sein. Built on Myitnge ( a ) Dokhtawaddy [...]

VALIDATED BY WIKILEAKS ON BURMA URANIUM SALES

December 16, 2010  Wikileaks is in the process of releasing over 250,000 United States  diplomatic cables. The less than 1% published so far have already changing  the way we think about the world. Hitherto secret information has been  revealed about one country after another. The cables have also made  evident that the U.S. regularly lies [...]

WikiLeaks: Singapore Lee says Myanmar ’stupid’

Alex Kennedy AP Singapore-Singapore statsman Lee Kuan Yew kallas Myanmar juntans ledare “dum” och “tät” i samtal med amerikanska diplomater, enligt utlämnade sekretessbelagda handlingar i veckan av Wikileaks. Singapores ledaren sade att hantera Myanmars militärregim var som “att prata med döda människor”, enligt ett konfidentiellt USA briefing på en 2007 samtal mellan Lee och USA: [...]

Burma’s Myo Yan Naung Thein on Junta’s Parliaments

En biografi av Aung San Suu Kyi

Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmas legitima ledare Aung San Suu Kyi sade en gång att “Det är även lämplig eller motiverad för det internationella samfundet genomför ansvar att ingripa i de inre angelägenheterna i ett annat land vars makt skapar ett helvete för befolkningen. Det internationella samfundet som helhet borde erkänna att det har ansvar. [...]

Aung San Suu Kyi