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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8779

7 September 2004
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/burma
Europe accepts Myanmar's participation at next ASEM Summit but foresees more severe sanctions unless Burmese junta meets three conditions

Valkenburg, 06/09/2004 (Agence Europe) - During their informal meeting at St Gerlach Castle, the Foreign Ministers of the 25 European Union countries reached an agreement on Friday on what their course of action should be with a view to Myanmar's participation at the Asem Summit to be held in Hanoi, Vietnam, on 8 and 9 October. While the summit is to be attended for the first time by the ten new EU Member States, the ten Asian countries insisted that three new members - Myanmar, Laos and...

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