LUXEMBOURG CONDEMNS BURMESE REGIME'S ACTIONS

UNCLAS LUXEMBOURG 000403 SIPDIS SENSITIVE SIPDIS DEPT FOR EAP/MLS COPE DEPT ALSO FOR EUR/WE E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PGOV PHUM PREL UN BM LU SUBJECT: LUXEMBOURG CONDEMNS BURMESE REGIME'S ACTIONS REF: STATE 137644 ¶1. (SBU) Pol/Econ officer delivered points contained reftel on 1 October to Yasuko Muller, MFA Director for Asian Affairs. Muller responded on 3 October by thanking us for our points and pointing out to us Luxembourg's interventions in the UNHRC on 2 October. She said that EU thinking about future actions was still ongoing, but would advise us once a decision had been reached. ¶2. (U) COMMENT: Luxembourg is in close step with the U.S. position on the Burmese Regime's crackdown. In addition to its actions in the HRC, Luxembourg FM Asselborn also made statements critical of the Regime's actions in his UNGA speech on 28 September as well as some harshly critical ones in an interview in Luxembourg's largest daily newspaper D'Wort published the same day. END COMMENT. WAGNER