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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10256
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/burma

EU welcomes release of Aung San Suu Kyi

Brussels, 15/11/2010 (Agence Europe) - The Socialist group (S&D) at the European Parliament has demanded that Aung San Suu Kyi, the icon of the Burmese opposition released on 13 November, after more than seven consecutive years of house arrest, be allowed to come to the European Parliament in person to receive the “Sakharov Prize” that the EP had awarded her in 1990. Véronique de Keyser MEP declared: “It is high time that she was able to come and collect it”. She demanded that the...

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