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"Mr President, can I say first of all that I find myself in the very unusual position of agreeing with everything that Baroness Ashton had to say on this particular subject this evening.
Of course we can have nothing but the greatest admiration for the tenacity and courage of Aung San Suu Kyi over all these years. She is an enormous example to all of us, and there are many Members of this Parliament who have campaigned for decades – in fact, for longer than most of us have been here (perhaps not the sitting Vice-President this evening, but certainly the rest of us). This Parliament has campaigned for a very long time to bring about the sort of results that we are seeing.
I just want to say a quick word, though, on the subject of sanctions, because some people are asking whether or not sanctions are ever useful.
Often, of course, they are the only recourse we have, short of armed conflict. In this case, I am sure they have helped. David Cameron, the British Prime Minister, was in Burma last week. He has spoken to Aung San Suu Kyi. He has spoken to President Thein Sein, and clearly they have all given certain messages to him which make him very confident that we should now suspend sanctions, with the exception of the arms embargo.
But we must be wary, because democracy has not suddenly happened overnight in Burma. There is a long way to go. There are still hundreds of political prisoners who are incarcerated and must be released, and I would be interested in your view, Baroness Ashton, as to whether Thein Sein faces any opposition in his own ranks and how strong his position is.
So we have to take care, but I think we must also be seen to respond very positively to these developments."@en1
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