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09LONDON1873
2009-08-12 10:59:00
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Embassy London
Cable title:
UK REACTS STRONGLY TO AUNG SAN SUU KYI'S CONVICTION
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UNCLAS LONDON 001873
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DEPARTMENT FOR EAP/MLS (LAURA SCHEIBE)
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PHUM BM UK
SUBJECT: UK REACTS STRONGLY TO AUNG SAN SUU KYI'S CONVICTION
REF: STATE 83598
(SBU) Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued a statement on
August 11 saying he was "saddened and angry" by the verdict
of Aung San Suu Kyi's "sham trial." The "purely political"
guilty verdict and sentence, Brown said, are "further proof
that the military regime in Burma is determined to act with
total disregard for accepted standards of the rule of law and
in defiance of international opinion." After an August 11
phone conversation with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon,
Brown also called on the UN Security Council to "respond
resolutely and impose a worldwide ban on the sale of arms to
the regime." Foreign Office Burma Coordinator Gill Lever
told Poloff August 12 that the UK Government is now focused
on encouraging Russia and China to respond more positively to
the draft PRST the USG circulated on August 11.
Visit London's Classified Website:
http://www.intelink.sgov.gov/wiki/Portal:Unit ed_Kingdom
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SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
DEPARTMENT FOR EAP/MLS (LAURA SCHEIBE)
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PHUM BM UK
SUBJECT: UK REACTS STRONGLY TO AUNG SAN SUU KYI'S CONVICTION
REF: STATE 83598
(SBU) Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued a statement on
August 11 saying he was "saddened and angry" by the verdict
of Aung San Suu Kyi's "sham trial." The "purely political"
guilty verdict and sentence, Brown said, are "further proof
that the military regime in Burma is determined to act with
total disregard for accepted standards of the rule of law and
in defiance of international opinion." After an August 11
phone conversation with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon,
Brown also called on the UN Security Council to "respond
resolutely and impose a worldwide ban on the sale of arms to
the regime." Foreign Office Burma Coordinator Gill Lever
told Poloff August 12 that the UK Government is now focused
on encouraging Russia and China to respond more positively to
the draft PRST the USG circulated on August 11.
Visit London's Classified Website:
http://www.intelink.sgov.gov/wiki/Portal:Unit ed_Kingdom
LeBaron