Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-05-22-Speech-4-848"
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The humanitarian disaster which has occurred in Burma is an enormous tragedy, and Junilistan agrees that the handling of the situation by the Burmese Government has been beneath all criticism. Aid must reach the hundreds of thousands of stricken people. That is priority number one. We therefore strongly sympathise with the resolution in its criticism of the Burmese Government, which has put its own power above the survival of the country’s people. On the other hand, it is not the job of the EU to condemn and exhort other countries to put pressure on Burma to open its borders. It is also not up to the EU to call on the International Criminal Court to prosecute the Government of Burma. It is the international community which should deal with these crucial questions of international law through the United Nations. Unfortunately there is a tendency in the EU to exploit disasters in order to advance its own position in the foreign policy area."@en1
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