Singapore (dpa) - Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong told Burmese regime chief Than Shwe that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) fully backs the mission to Burma by UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari, a published letter said Monday.
"The videos and photographs of what is happening on the street of Rangoon and other cities in (Burma) have evoked the revulsion of the people throughout Southeast Asia and all over the world," said Lee, writing in his capacity as Asean chairman.
"I would like to emphasise the importance which the Asean countries, and indeed the whole international community attach to Gambari's mission," Lee said in the letter released to The Straits Times on Sunday.
Gambari was holding talks with several Burmese leaders to try to resolve the ongoing crisis in the country.
"We strongly urge your government to grant Mr Gambari full access to all parties in (Burma), as you have done in the past, and to work with Mr Gambari to find a way forward," said Lee.
The stern message came days after Asean leaders issued an unprecedented sharp rebuke of Burma on the sidelines of a UN meeting in New York.
Asean comprises Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Burma.
Gambari arrived Sunday in Rangoon after an overnight stay in Naypyidaw, the capital, where he talked with several military leaders, diplomats said. He later held talks with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
"The videos and photographs of what is happening on the street of Rangoon and other cities in (Burma) have evoked the revulsion of the people throughout Southeast Asia and all over the world," said Lee, writing in his capacity as Asean chairman.
"I would like to emphasise the importance which the Asean countries, and indeed the whole international community attach to Gambari's mission," Lee said in the letter released to The Straits Times on Sunday.
Gambari was holding talks with several Burmese leaders to try to resolve the ongoing crisis in the country.
"We strongly urge your government to grant Mr Gambari full access to all parties in (Burma), as you have done in the past, and to work with Mr Gambari to find a way forward," said Lee.
The stern message came days after Asean leaders issued an unprecedented sharp rebuke of Burma on the sidelines of a UN meeting in New York.
Asean comprises Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Burma.
Gambari arrived Sunday in Rangoon after an overnight stay in Naypyidaw, the capital, where he talked with several military leaders, diplomats said. He later held talks with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
3 comments:
Singapore should pull out of ASEAN if Singapore doesn't like ASEAN Non-interference internal rule. What is a sense of having rule if no one is willing to follow it?
IT MEANS YOU CAN BEAT THE HELL OF OF YOUR KID(S)AS WELL AS YOUR WIFE AND TELL YOUR NEIGHBORS NEXT DOORS NOT TO INTERFERE WITH YOUR FAMILY DISPUTE. BUT THE POLICE CAN INTERVENE IN THE SOCIETY AS WELL AS TO THE WORLD SO IT MEANS UN.
That is not the same.
Are you telling us that when the US sentence people to dead, we can interfere?
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