France urges China and ASEAN to push Myanmar
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France called on China and Southeast Asia on Monday to put more pressure on Myanmar's ruling junta to start proper talks about political reform with detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. "I have come to South East Asia to tell Burma's neighbours that no progress can be made in Burma without their intervention and assistance," French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner wrote in editorials in several regional newspapers.
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The German presidency of the EU on Wednesday called on Myanmar to release iconic democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi as the country&#39;s military junta prepares to review her detention this weekend.
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President George W. Bush, who is to announce more U.S. sanctions against Myanmar on Friday, will call on China and India to take more action to pressure that Asian country, the White House said.
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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will push ASEAN leaders at a summit in Laos to address the lack of political reform in military-ruled Myanmar, a source of growing embarrassment to the group, officials said today.
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VIENTIANE  - The leaders of 10 Southeast Asian nations are holding summit talks to speed up economic integration and forge an economic bloc capable of standing up to rising competitors such as India and China.
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Europe's papers condemn President Chirac's efforts to drum up Chinese business with France
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The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday urged Myanmar to admit a top U.N. envoy immediately, but China immediately ruled out calls for sanctions or a U.N. condemnation of the ruling junta's use of force.
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China's support has been vital to achieving initial steps toward national reconciliation in military-ruled Myanmar, an EU envoy said on Thursday, but added Beijing would not directly pressure the regime towards reform.
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An Asia-Europe forum accepted Myanmar and  12 other new members on Thursday ahead of a summit strained by  Yangon's human rights record and detention of democracy icon  Aung San Suu Kyi.
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The United States called on the European Union (EU) and other democracies to consider imposing a full import ban on Myanmar to pressure the country's military junta to release opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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China and Singapore on Monday  urged the international community to help calm Beijing's  dispute with Taiwan over its push for independence.
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French President Jacques Chirac on Saturday called for an end to a European Union arms embargo on China as companies from both nations signed contracts worth more than $1 billion
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The president of France is in China on a five-day visit to improve ties with Beijing, and expand trade with one of the world&#39;s fastest growing economies.
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President Jacques Chirac has expressed the hope that his upcoming visit to China would further boost the Sino-French partnership. &quot;Our partnership is built on a shared view of the world, which is multipolar
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A Paris-based rights group Monday called on visiting French President Jacques Chirac to help seek the release of a jailed Chinese journalist and cyber dissident during his visit to the city of Shanghai.
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President Jacques Chirac has championed lifting the ban imposed after the Tiananmen Square massacre which the EU believes implies a near-pariah status China no longer deserves.
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French President Jacques Chirac, who has urged an end to an EU arms embargo on China, called for closer defense cooperation between Paris and Beijing at a meeting with Chinese Defence Minister Cao Gangchuan, a ...