05/10/2006 (Agence Europe) - The EU has expressed its “deep concern” at the fact that former student leaders Min Ko Naing, Ko Ko Gyi and Htay Kywe, were detained by the Burmese authorities last week and have still not been released. The detention of two other militants, Min Zeya and Pyone Cho, arrested on 30 September, is equally worrying, states the Finnish presidency of the EU in a declaration adopted on Thursday, which reaffirms that “democratisation can only be achieved by dialogue between the government and all other political and civil society forces…. The EU therefore calls upon the government of Burma/Myanmar to release the detained individuals immediately”. (hb)