Thursday, 24 July 2008

US calls Junta's promise of democracy a 'mockery'; Asia-Pacific nations flay junta



"Burma is out of step, badly out of step," she said.

ASEAN should find a way to move the country toward political reforms that would "make something of what is right now a kind of mockery, which is this roadmap to democracy which is going nowhere," she said.

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အေမရိကန္ႏုိင္ငံၿခားေရး၀န္ၾကီး ကြန္ဒုိလီစာရုိက္ ဟာ အာဆီယံညီလာခံကုိလာေရာက္ တက္ေရာက္စဥ္ ႏုိင္ငံတကာ ႏုိင္ငံၿခားေရး၀န္ၾကီးမ်ား ၿပဳလုပ္တဲ႔ အစည္းအေ၀းမွာ ၿမန္မာစစ္အုပ္စုက က်င္းပၿပဳလုပ္ေနတဲ႔ ဒီမုိကေရစီ လမ္းစဥ္ ဟာ အမတန္မွ စက္ဆုတ္ရြံရွာဖြယ္ေကာင္ေလာက္ေအာင္ ၿပဳလုပ္ေနတဲ႔ ဟန္ၿပဒီမုိကေရစီလမ္းစဥ္လုိ႔ ရွဳံ႕ခ်ေၿပာဆုိသြားပါတယ္။

ဒီလုိဟန္ၿပလုပ္ေဆာင္ေနတာေၾကာင္႔ ၿမန္မာၿပည္အတြက္ ဒီမုိကေရစီဟာ စုိးရိမ္ရတဲ႔ လြဲမွားေနတဲ႔လမ္းေၾကာင္း ႏွင္႔ အဆင္႔ကုိ ေရာက္ ရွိေနပါၿပီလုိ႔၊ လုပ္ေဖာ္ကုိင္ဖက္ ေဒသတြင္း အာဆီယံႏုိင္ငံၿခားေရး၀န္ၾကီးေတြ ကုိသတိေပး ေၿပာၾကားသြားပါတယ္။

ဒီလုိဟန္ၿပလုပ္ေနေဆာင္မႈကုိႏုိင္ငံတကာအသုိင္းအ၀န္းကလုံး၀လက္ခံႏုိင္မွာမဟုတ္ေၾကာင္းႏွင္႔၊ ဆုိင္ကလုံနားဂစ္ မုန္တုိင္းကာလအတြင္း ႏုိင္ငံတကာ လူသားခ်င္းစာနာတဲ႔ အကူအညီေပးခဲ႔မႈအေပၚ ၿမန္မာစစ္အုပ္စု၏ ကနဦး တုန္႔ၿပန္ခဲ႔မႈဟာ အမတန္မွ လူသားမဆန္ေသာ စက္ဆုတ္ရြံရွာဖြယ္ၿဖစ္ရပ္လုိ႔္ ထပ္ေလာင္း၍ ၿပင္းၿပင္းထန္ထန္ ေၿပာဆုိသြား ၿပီး၊ ဒီလုိ လူသားခ်င္းမစာတဲ႔ လုပ္ရပ္ကုိ
ႏုိင္ငံတကာ အသုိင္းအ၀န္းက ဘယ္လုိနားလည္ေပးရမွာ လည္းလုိ႔ ႏုိင္ငံၿခားေရး၀န္ၾကီးမ်ား ႏွီးေႏွာဖလွယ္အစည္းအေ၀းပြဲ မွာ ေမးခြန္းထုတ္ေၿပာဆုိသြားပါတယ္။

ဆုိင္ကလုံနားဂစ္ မုန္တုိင္းကာလအလြန္ အတြင္း ၿမန္မာေလေဘးဒုကၡသည္မ်ားအတြက္၊ ႏုိင္ငံတကာ လူသားခ်င္းစာနာတဲ႔ အေထာက္အပံ႔ အကူအညီေတြအေပၚ အာဆီယံအသင္းၾကီး၏ ပူးေပါင္းကူညီေဆာင္ရြက္ ေပးခဲ႔မႈကုိ ေတာ႔ခ်ီးက်ဴးေၿပာဆုိသြားပါတယ္။




By JIM GOMEZ,Associated Press Writer AP - Thursday, July 24

SINGAPORE - The United States blasted the Myanmar junta's oft-repeated promise to democratize as a "kind of mockery" Thursday, while Asia-Pacific countries urged the generals to take bolder steps to meet international demands.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice delivered a stinging rebuke to Myanmar, also known as Burma, before attending a security conference hosted by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

Myanmar is a member of the 10-nation ASEAN, whose foreign ministers meet every year with counterparts from 17 Asia-Pacific countries for the ASEAN Regional Forum.

In comments to reporters before the meeting, Rice noted the ASEAN charter aspires to the rule of law, human rights and the development of more pluralistic political systems.

"Burma is out of step, badly out of step," she said.

The foreign ministers attending the forum were to express their exasperation over the junta's unfulfilled promise to reform under a "roadmap to democracy" and free Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.

Myanmar should "take bolder steps toward a peaceful transition to democracy in the near future," the ministers said in statement, a final draft of which was obtained by The Associated Press.

The statement also urged the ruling generals to ensure general elections in 2010 are free and fair.

Rice renewed criticism of Myanmar for initially refusing international help in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis in May, when several countries including the United States were "sitting literally offshore" with ships loaded with aid.

"When you have a situation (with) the junta refusing to let people in need be helped, you wonder how can the international community stand by and allow that to happen," she said.

She praised ASEAN for persuading Myanmar to accept help eventually.

ASEAN should find a way to move the country toward political reforms that would "make something of what is right now a kind of mockery, which is this roadmap to democracy which is going nowhere," she said.

ASEAN, which has been taken to task for not doing enough to pressure Myanmar's junta, held back its criticism after Nargis struck, fearing it would complicate efforts to convince the ruling generals to allow the entry of outside aid.

ASEAN consists of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

The junta in Myanmar came to power in 1988 after crushing a pro-democracy movement. It called elections in 1990 but refused to honor the results when Suu Kyi's party won overwhelmingly.

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