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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8784
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/asem

EU formally approves Burma strategy - Possibility that sanctions will be tightened on 11 October

Brussels, 13/09/2004 (Agence Europe) - Monday's "External Relations" Council formally approved its position (the broad lines of which were already agreed at the informal Gymnich-style meeting in Valkenburg on 3 and 4 September) on Burma's accession to the ASEM process and the forthcoming ASEM summit. Under the text supported by all the delegations on Monday (including France which, following the Valkenburg meeting, where it was not represented by its Foreign Minister, had called for certain...

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