“US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (R) shakes hand with Myanmar’s Foreign Minister Nyan Win (C).” Photo by the Agence France-Presse. Here’s today’s Burma-related news:
The Agence France-Presse reports on the meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the ruling military junta of Burma’s foreign minister Nyan Win.
The New York Times also reports on the “jibes” traded between Secretary Clinton and representatives of North Korea over issues including Burma.
Among those jibes, the AFP notes that Secretary Clinton said the junta’s “pledge of support for sanctions against North Korea showed [that Burma] was moving in a ‘positive’ direction.”
The Associated Press reports that “the legal team of Myanmar’s jailed pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was given access to the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Thursday, a day before her trial is to resume for final arguments, her lawyer said…Authorities in the military-ruled country denied permission for Suu Kyi’s lawyers to meet her Wednesday, according to Nyan Win, one of Suu Kyi’s defense lawyers as well as spokesman for her party.”
The AFP reports that Suu Kyi’s cousin accepted for her the Mahatma Gandhi Prize, an international award for peace and reconciliation, in South Africa.
The Economist questions Suu Kyi’s strategy and wonders about the possibility of Western nations dropping sanctions and actively engaging the junta.
Finally, Al Jazeera English examines the ties between the junta and North Korea:
“US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (R) shakes hand with Myanmar’s Foreign Minister Nyan Win (C).” Photo by the Agence France-Presse.
