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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9769
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THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/myanmar

Parliament calls for sanctions to be extended

Strasbourg, 24/10/2008 (Agence Europe) - With the adoption, on Thursday 23 October, of a common resolution from six political groups (EPP-ED, PES, ALDE, Greens/EFA, UEN, GUE/NGL) on Burma/Myanmar, the European Parliament condemns the continued detention of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. It deplores the fact that the number of political prisoners has increased from 1,300 to 2,000 in the aftermath of the Saffron Revolution of September 2007, and that, despite the release of U Win Tin, veteran...

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