Myanmar issue must remain a priority: EU envoy
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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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The absent member will be the one holding center-stage at a meeting in Hanoi of leaders of Asia and Europe. In a hard-fought compromise, Myanmar&#39;s ruling junta will not send its government head.
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Leaders from Asia and Europe pledged yesterday to tackle everything from climate change to terrorism but dodged calling for the release of Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi at the end of their two-day summit.
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Asian and European leaders were set to admit 13 new nations to a high-powered regional forum riven by discord over one of the countries slated to join -- military-ruled Myanmar.
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Myanmar's junta has agreed to allow a U.N. envoy to return to the country earlier than expected next month to help promote national reconciliation following the military's violent crackdown on peaceful protesters, the U.N. said Tuesday.
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Europe's governments should see immigration as an "enrichment" not a threat says the EU's justice commissioner.
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An Asia-Europe summit opened Friday overshadowed by the European Union&#39;s threat to slap fresh sanctions on one of the grouping&#39;s newest Asian membersâmilitary-ruled Burmaâif it fails
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Over strong opposition from China, the U.N. Security Council on Friday put Myanmar on its agenda in what U.S. officials called a "major step forward" in American efforts to increase pressure on the country's military dictatorship.
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The United States on Friday  asked the U.N. Security Council to deal with Myanmar, whose  junta government has jailed opponents, persecuted minorities  and sent refugees fleeing into neighboring states.
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Military-ruled Myanmar has said Britain is interfering in the internal affairs of its former colony, jeopardising relations between Europe and Asia.
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The European Union says Burma can attend an Asia-Europe summit next month, but only if it sends a low-level delegation. But some rights activists are disappointed by the decision.
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Britain on Saturday gave a guarded response to Myanmar's announcement that a referendum would be held on a new constitution in May before multi-party elections in 2010.
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VIENTIANE : Myanmar vowed Friday to keep to its promised &quot;road map&quot; to democracy as Southeast Asian officials here cautiously welcomed the military regime&#39;s planned release of thousands of prisoners as a sign of progress.
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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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Dutch Foreign Minister and chairman of the council Bernard Bot, right, talks with Sweden&#39;s Foreign Minister Laila Freivalds during an EU foreign ministers council in Luxembourg, Monday, Oct. 11, 2004.
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EU foreign ministers agreed Monday to tighten sanctions against Myanmar if it does not improve its human rights record by Oct. 8, when an EU meeting with Asian countries starts in Vietnam.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 28 (IPS) - With images of monks converging courageously on  Rangoon broadcast around the world, the European Union threatened  this week that it would respond to any use of violence against  peaceful protesters by strengthening the sanctions it had  previously imposed on Burma's military junta.