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UK PM calls for U.N. Security Council meeting on Myanmar
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 26 - 09 - 2007

Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Wednesday called for an urgent U.N. Security Council meeting on Myanmar, or Burma, and urged the military regime there to be restrained in reacting to protests.
«The whole world is now watching,» Brown told reporters
at the Labour Party's annual conference. «I hope the
Security Council will meet immediately, meet today and
discuss this issue and look at what can be done.»
«The first thing that should be done is the U.N. envoy
should be sent to Burma to make them directly aware that
any trampling of human rights that takes place is
unacceptable.»
Brown said EU ministers would meet to discuss an extension
of sanctions.
«I think the international pressure that can be made to
be felt in the next few days is incredibly important. I
want to see the whole of the world getting together on
this. Each continent of the world can come together,»
Brown said.
«The whole world is now watching Burma and its
illegitimate and repressive regime should know that the
whole world is going to hold it to account,» Brown was quoted as saying by the Associated Press.
Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who was flying to New
York later Wednesday, also urged restraint in Myanmar.
Britain's ambassador in Yangon, Mark Canning, believes
that «the international community's voice is a factor in
the discussions that are going on there,» Miliband told
reporters.
«It's very important that we continue to maintain this
unanimous international call for restraint, and also an
international message that there will be accountability in
respect of any decisions that are taken, but restraint must
be the order of the day,» Miliband told reporters.
«In all of our discussions we are emphasizing the need
for restraint, and clearly there is a degree of caution
being exercised ... in the minds of the regime, but it's
clearly important that they continue to understand that
restraint must be the order of the day,» he added.


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