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09STATE70206
2009-07-07 20:56:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Secretary of State
Cable title:  

BURMA: TALKING POINTS FOR GROUP OF FRIENDS

Tags:  PREL UNSC BU 
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C O N F I D E N T I A L STATE 070206 

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E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/06/2019
TAGS: PREL UNSC BU
SUBJECT: BURMA: TALKING POINTS FOR GROUP OF FRIENDS
MEETING, JULY 8, 2009

Classified By: IO Acting Assistant Secretary Gerald Anderson,
for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)

C O N F I D E N T I A L STATE 070206

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E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/06/2019
TAGS: PREL UNSC BU
SUBJECT: BURMA: TALKING POINTS FOR GROUP OF FRIENDS
MEETING, JULY 8, 2009

Classified By: IO Acting Assistant Secretary Gerald Anderson,
for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)


1. This is an action cable. Please see para 2.


2. USUN may draw on the points in para 3 when making an
intervention at the Group of Friends of Burma meeting
scheduled for July 8, 2009, at which Special Envoy Gambari
will brief on Secretary-General Ban's travel to Burma on July
3 - 4.


3. Begin talking points:

-- We thank Special Envoy Gambari for convening this briefing
on Secretary-General Ban's July 3 - 4 trip to Burma.

-- We note that Secretary-General Ban was able to meet with
Senior General Than Shwe, members of ceasefire groups, and
members of registered political parties, including several
members of the National League for Democracy's Central
Executive Committee.

-- We are disappointed, however, that the Burmese authorities
denied the Secretary-General's request to meet with Aung San
Suu Kyi, and that they have taken no action on the
Secretary-General's and the international community's
repeated demand that all political prisoners, including Aung
San Suu Kyi, be released without condition. We continue to
urge the regime to respond to the Secretary-General's message.

-- As the Secretary-General noted, Burma faces numerous
challenges that it cannot resolve alone. We are troubled
that the authorities continue to delay meeting the grave
human rights, political, and economic challenges that face
the country.

-- We continue to urge the authorities to meet all of their
international obligations and to take immediate steps to
promote national reconciliation and democratic reforms,
beginning with the release of Burma's more than 2,200
political prisoners. We also continue to call for Aung San
Suu Kyi's immediate release from detention.

End talking points.
CLINTON