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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10465

4 October 2011
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (ae) eu/burma
EU welcomes shelving of dam project

Brussels, 02/10/2011 (Agence Europe) - The European Union is encouraged by the fact that the president of Myanmar (Burma) has decided to put a stop to the “controversial” Myitsone dam project in the north of the state of Kachin, a spokesperson to Catherine Ashton announced in a press release published on Friday 30 September. “We welcome the fact that the government is inclined to take account of ecological and economic concerns over this project, and of his willingness to listen to the...

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