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"Mr President, speaking on behalf of the PPE-DE Group and the British Conservatives, the Burmese military regime, which euphemistically calls itself the 'state peace and development council', is a narco-dictatorship financed by heroin that brutally exploits and terrorises its own people. This includes forced labour, persecution of dissidents, forced relocation, conscription of child soldiers, as well as rape of ethnic minority women and children by government troops. These crimes are not committed by rebels or hidden guerrilla forces. No! The people of Burma suffer at the hands of their own government soldiers. There are 1 350 political prisoners still in jail in Burma, subjected to inhumane conditions, while the country's political hope – Aung San Suu Kyi – lingers under house arrest. It is simply intolerable that EU Member States remain one of Burma's biggest investors and trading partners.
The EU common position on Burma must be strengthened. Sanctions must enter into force if the regime does not take meaningful steps towards the restoration of democracy. The common position will be reviewed in 2004, but the Council should also ensure that the situation in Burma is reassessed in June 2004.
If these meaningful steps, such as the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and other detained members of the National League for Democracy Party, as well as tripartite dialogue between the NLD ethnic minority leaders and Burma's authorities, have not taken place, sanctions should be implemented with immediate effect.
Sanctions should include the following measures: preventing EU companies and citizens from investing in Burma; banning imported goods and services from enterprises owned by the military, military personnel and their associates; banning the import of strategically important goods from sectors of the economy under monopoly, such as gems and timber; and banning international financial transfers and transactions either by a citizen or an entity of an EU Member State.
I call upon other ASEAN states to cooperate with the EU on this issue and to exert greater pressure on the Burmese regime to take the necessary steps towards democracy."@en1
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