Schroeder expects progress from Myanmar on human rights
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HANOI - Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder told delegates at the Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM 5) in Vietnam&#39;s capital Friday that Germany expects Myanmar (Burma) to take steps to improve its human rights record, according to delegation members.
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Myanmar's ruling junta said the country's new draft constitution, which will replace one scrapped in 1988, was completed Tuesday.
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Myanmar has given the green light for a visit by the UN special rapporteur on human rights, UN spokeswoman Michele Montas said Monday.
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BERLIN - Germany&#39;s Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on Wednesday shrugged off protests against his labour-market reforms, saying they would take effect next 1 January &quot;on schedule&quot; and without further changes.
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The European Union is to tighten sanctions against Myanmar after seeing no &quot;positive development&quot; on a list of demands on human rights and democracy, the EU Dutch presidency said.
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder will visit Yemen March 2-3 on an official visit accompanied by a high-level delegation including ministers, officials and prominent businessmen.
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Myanmar's government has agreed to a visit by the U.N.'s human rights investigator, who has been barred from entering the military-ruled country since 2003, the United Nations said Monday.
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President George W. Bush is set to announce new U.S. sanctions against Myanmar over human rights as the annual U.N. General Assembly gathering of world leaders gets under way on Tuesday.
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BANGKOKâThe extension of the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyiâs detention allows Myanmarâs military regime to press ahead with its proclaimed democracy program
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Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said Monday he is confident of winning Germans over to his reform plans and rebuilding his party's support after avoiding major new losses in local elections in a traditional ...
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Myanmar top leader Senior-General Than Shwe, Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), began a state visit to India Sunday, signifying that the two countries&#39; relations are going to reach a new height.
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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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German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday pressed China to improve human rights and take on greater international responsibilities as its global influence grows.
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The United States has moved to put the issue of political repression and human rights abuses in Myanmar formally on the agenda of the Security Council this month, its ambassador to the UN said.
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Efforts to promote democracy in Myanmar must remain a priority for the international community, European Union special envoy for Myanmar Piero Fassino said here Friday.
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Thailand's newly elected government will maintain a policy of noninterference in military-ruled Myanmar, the foreign minister said Thursday, adding that democracy and human rights are "domestic issues."
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Myanmar&#39;s military rulers should end the detention of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and allow her National League for Democracy to operate, the US State Department said.