Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09DILI204
2009-08-12 15:11:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Dili
Cable title:
PRESIDENT RAMOS-HORTA EXPECTED TO MAKE STATEMENT ON BURMA
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UNCLAS DILI 000204
SIPDIS
STATE FOR EAP/MLS LAURA SCHEIBE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PGOV PHUM BM TT
SUBJECT: PRESIDENT RAMOS-HORTA EXPECTED TO MAKE STATEMENT ON BURMA
REF: STATE 83598
UNCLAS DILI 000204
SIPDIS
STATE FOR EAP/MLS LAURA SCHEIBE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PGOV PHUM BM TT
SUBJECT: PRESIDENT RAMOS-HORTA EXPECTED TO MAKE STATEMENT ON BURMA
REF: STATE 83598
1. Political Officer delivered reftel demarche on Aung San Suu
Kyi's conviction to Constancio Pinto, MFA Director for External
Relations and Ambassador-Designate to the United States, on
August 12. Political Officer provided texts of the statements
by President Obama and Secretary Clinton and urged the GOTL to
express publicly its concern about developments in Burma.
2. Ambassador Pinto indicated his government would soon issue a
statement calling for Aung San Suu Kyi's immediate release. He
expected the statement would come from President Jose
Ramos-Horta. He anticipated the President would decry Burma's
defiance of the international community and underscore its
disregard for the rule of law. Ambassador Pinto characterized
Burma as a matter of principle for Timor-Leste, one given
particular salience by his country's own lengthy struggle for
political freedom.
3. Ambassador Pinto expressed his belief that Malaysia was
doing the right thing in calling for a meeting of ASEAN foreign
ministers. Timor, as a "special guest" of ASEAN, would look to
participate as appropriate. He assessed that there had been
some positive change in the stance taken by ASEAN countries
toward Burma since the adoption of the ASEAN Charter, as well as
increasing awareness that Burma's poor human rights practices
were a problem for all of ASEAN.
HENICK
SIPDIS
STATE FOR EAP/MLS LAURA SCHEIBE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PGOV PHUM BM TT
SUBJECT: PRESIDENT RAMOS-HORTA EXPECTED TO MAKE STATEMENT ON BURMA
REF: STATE 83598
1. Political Officer delivered reftel demarche on Aung San Suu
Kyi's conviction to Constancio Pinto, MFA Director for External
Relations and Ambassador-Designate to the United States, on
August 12. Political Officer provided texts of the statements
by President Obama and Secretary Clinton and urged the GOTL to
express publicly its concern about developments in Burma.
2. Ambassador Pinto indicated his government would soon issue a
statement calling for Aung San Suu Kyi's immediate release. He
expected the statement would come from President Jose
Ramos-Horta. He anticipated the President would decry Burma's
defiance of the international community and underscore its
disregard for the rule of law. Ambassador Pinto characterized
Burma as a matter of principle for Timor-Leste, one given
particular salience by his country's own lengthy struggle for
political freedom.
3. Ambassador Pinto expressed his belief that Malaysia was
doing the right thing in calling for a meeting of ASEAN foreign
ministers. Timor, as a "special guest" of ASEAN, would look to
participate as appropriate. He assessed that there had been
some positive change in the stance taken by ASEAN countries
toward Burma since the adoption of the ASEAN Charter, as well as
increasing awareness that Burma's poor human rights practices
were a problem for all of ASEAN.
HENICK