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Australia Eases Sanctions Against Burma


  Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd 


Australia said Monday it is easing some restrictions on members of Myanmar's ruling elite in response to political reforms by its military-backed government.

The decision came as the party of Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi began gearing up to contest by-elections on April 1. Her National League for Democracy party has cautiously endorsed reforms instituted by President Thein Sein that include legalizing labor unions and freeing some political prisoners.

Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd announced the easing of sanctions during a visit to Indonesia, Australia's Foreign Affairs Department said.

"The changes to the sanctions list are an acknowledgment that Burma is taking a number of important steps toward a more open democracy and greater engagement with the region," the department said a statement, using the name for Myanmar preferred by the country's democracy movement.

Australia bars visits by senior Myanmar officials and bans financial transactions with them. Like other Western nations, it imposed the sanctions because of abuses by the previous military government.

The new policy removes former Cabinet ministers who have left politics and tourism officials from the sanctions list. The statement said an arms embargo remains in place.

"We hope positive developments, such as the increased participation of opposition parties in the political process, the release of around 220 political prisoners, and new labor laws that will legalize trade unions, will continue. In this context we will keep our approach to sanctions under review," Rudd said in the statement.

The United States and Britain, whose foreign secretary last week visited Myanmar, have not eased their sanctions, saying the release of more political prisoners is a key indicator of the progress of reforms. Between 1,000 and 2,000 political prisoners are believed to still be detained.

Thein Sein took office last year after a general election boycotted by Suu Kyi's group, which said the polls were undemocratic.

The government legally dissolved her party for falling to contest the election, but recently granted it official approval to contest the April 1 polls after it agreed to rejoin electoral politics. Suu Kyi is expected to run for a seat in parliament.

Her party won a sweeping victory in a 1990 general election, but could not take power when the military refused to allow parliament to convene.

On Monday, the party unveiled a new party logo for the upcoming polls and launched full-scale activities.

The logo uses the party flag, with a yellow fighting peacock and a white star on a red background. The fighting peacock was used by student activists during pro-democracy uprisings in 1988 and became a symbol of the democracy movement.

Most of the 48 seats being contested on April 1 were vacated by lawmakers who became Cabinet ministers after the first parliamentary session last January.

The military is guaranteed 110 seats in the 440-seat lower house and 56 seats in the 224-seat upper house, and the main pro-military party holds 80 percent of the remaining 498 elected seats, so even if the NLD wins all 48 seats up for grabs, it will have little power in parliament.



ျမန္မာအေပၚ ဒဏ္ခတ္ ပိတ္ဆို႔မႈအခ်ိဳ႕ ၾသစေၾတးလ် ေလွ်ာ့ေပး

VOA — ၾသစေၾတးလ်ႏုိင္ငံက ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံအေပၚခ်ထားတဲ့ ဒဏ္ခတ္ပိတ္ဆို႔မႈတခ်ိဳ႕ကို ေလွ်ာ့ေပးလိုက္ပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံမွာ အတိုက္အခံေတြနဲ႔ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္တာေတြ စၿပီးေတာ့ ျဖစ္လာတဲ့အတြက္ ေငြေရးေၾကးေရးနဲ႔ ခရီးသြားလာခြင့္ ပိတ္ဆို႔ ဟန္႔တားမႈကို ေလွ်ာ့ေပးလိုက္တာလို႔ၾသစေၾတးလ် ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရး ၀န္ႀကီးဌာနက ထုတ္ျပန္တဲ့ ေၾကညာခ်က္ထဲမွာ ေဖာ္ျပထားပါတယ္။ ၾသစေၾတးလ်ေရာက္ ျမန္မာ့အေရး တက္ၾကြလႈပ္ရွားသူေတြကေတာ့ အခုလို ေလွ်ာ့ေပးဖို႔ အခ်ိန္မတန္ေသးဘူးလုိ႔ ေ၀ဖန္လုိက္ပါတယ္။ အျပည့္စံုကို ဦး၀င္းမင္းက တင္ျပထားပါတယ္။

Kevin Rudd ၏ website တြင္ ျမန္မာအေပၚ စီးပြားေရးပိတ္ဆို႔မႈ ေလွ်ာ့ခ်ေၾကာင္းေဖာ္ျပထား

အေမရိကန္နဲ႔ ၿဗိတိန္ ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီးေတြက ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအေပၚ စီးပြားေရးဒဏ္ခတ္ ပိတ္ဆို႔မႈေတြကို ဆက္ထိန္းထားဖို႔ ေျပာေနခ်ိန္မွာ ၾသစေၾတးလ် ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီးဘက္ကေတာ့ ပထမဆံုး အခုလုိ စ ေလွ်ာ့ေပါ့ေပးဖို႔ ဆံုးျဖတ္လာတာပါ။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံကို မႏွစ္က သြားလည္ခဲ့ၿပီး ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ နဲ႔လည္း ၾသစေၾတးလ် ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီး ကယ္ဗင္ရက္ဒ္ (Kevin Rudd) က ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံထဲမွာ ဒီမိုကေရစီေရး ပိုၿပီး ပြင့္ပြင့္လင္းလင္း ေဆာင္ရြက္ႏိုင္ဖို႔ အတိုက္အခံေတြ အေနနဲ႔ ႏိုင္ငံေရးလုပ္ငန္းေတြမွာ ပိုမို ပါ၀င္လႈပ္ရွားခြင့္ ရလာတာ၊ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေပါင္း ၂၂၀ ျပန္လြတ္လာတာနဲ႔ အလုပ္သမား သမဂၢေတြ တရား၀င္ဖြဲ႔ဖို႔ ခြင့္ျပဳႏိုင္မယ့္ အလုပ္သမားဥပေဒသစ္ေတြ ျပဌာန္းလာတာေတြဟာ တိုးတက္မႈေတြ ျဖစ္တာမို႔ ဒီတုိးတက္မႈေတြ ဆက္လုပ္ေပးဖို႔ အားေပးတဲ့အေနနဲ႔ အခုလို ေလွ်ာ့ေပါ့ေပးလိုက္တာ ျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ ၾသစေၾတးလ် ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီးဌာနက ထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္ထဲမွာ ေျပာလုိက္ပါတယ္။

ဒီေန႔ ထုတ္ျပန္ခဲ့တဲ့ ၾသစေၾတးလ် ၀န္ႀကီးဌာနရဲ႕ ဒီေၾကညာခ်က္ထဲမွာ အခုလို ေလွ်ာ့ေပးတဲ့အေနနဲ႔ ျမန္မာအစိုးရသစ္ထဲက လူေတြကို ၂၀၀၇ ခုႏွစ္ ေရႊ၀ါေရာင္ လႈပ္ရွားမႈ ဖိႏွိပ္မႈၿပီးကတည္းက စ ခ်မွတ္လာခဲ့တဲ့ ေငြေရးေၾကးေရးနဲ႔ ခရီးသြားလာခြင့္ ဆိုင္ရာ ပိတ္ပင္စာရင္းထဲမွာ မထည့္သြင္းေတာ့ဘူး၊ အစိုးရေဟာင္းမွာ ပါခဲ့သူေတြကိုလည္း ဒီစာရင္းထဲကေန ပယ္ဖ်က္လိုက္ၿပီလို႔ ဆိုပါတယ္။ ပယ္ဖ်က္လိုက္တဲ့ သူေတြထဲမွာ ႏိုင္ငံျခားခရီးသြားလုပ္ငန္းက အရာရွိေတြလည္း ပါ၀င္ပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမဲ့ အရင္ ခ်မွတ္ထားတဲ့ ပိတ္ဆို႔မႈတစ္ခုျဖစ္တဲ့ လက္နက္ မေရာင္းခ်ေရး ပိတ္ပင္ထားမႈကိုေတာ့ ဆက္ထိန္းထားဦးမွာ ျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ ဒီေၾကညာခ်က္မွာ ေဖာ္ျပထားပါတယ္။ ၀န္ႀကီး ရက္ဒ္ က ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရး ပိုလုပ္လာတာနဲ႔အမွ် ဒီ ပိတ္ဆို႔မႈေတြကို ဆက္လက္ၿပီး ျပန္လည္ သံုးသပ္ ေလွ်ာ့ေပးသြားမွာျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ ဆိုပါတယ္။

ဒါေပမဲ့ ၾသစေၾတးလ်ႏိုင္ငံမွာ ျမန္မာ့အေရး ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနသူတစ္ဦးျဖစ္တဲ့ ေဒါက္တာ ျမင့္ခ်ိဳကေတာ့ အခုလို ေလွ်ာ့ေပါ့ေပးဖို႔ အခ်ိန္မတန္ေသးဘူးလို႔ ေ၀ဖန္လိုက္ပါတယ္။

“လက္ရွိ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေတြလည္း မလႊတ္ေပးေသးဘူး။ တိုင္းရင္းသား လူမ်ိဳးစုေတြကိုလည္း စစ္ေတြတိုက္ခိုက္ေနတာေတြလည္း ေသခ်ာ မရပ္ေသးဘူး။ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ခ်ိဳးေဖာက္မႈေတြလည္း အမ်ားႀကီး မတိုးတက္ေသးဘဲနဲ႔ အခုလို ပစ္မွတ္ထား ပိတ္ဆို႔ဟန္႔တားမႈကို ႐ုပ္သိမ္းတဲ့ကိစၥကေတာ့ ဒါ အခ်ိန္မတန္ေသးဘူးလို႔ ေစာလြန္းတယ္လို႔ က်ေနာ္တို႔ ယူဆတယ္။ ဘာေၾကာင့္လဲဆုိေတာ့ ၾသစေၾတးလ်အစိုးရက လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ခ်ိဳးေဖာက္မႈေတြေၾကာင့္၊ ႏိုင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသားေတြကို ဆက္ၿပီး ထိန္းသိမ္းထားတာေၾကာင့္၊ တိုင္းရင္းသားေတြကို စစ္ဆင္ေနတာေၾကာင့္ sanction လို႔ေခၚတဲ့ ပစ္မွတ္ထား ပိတ္ဆို႔ဒဏ္ခတ္မႈကို ခ်ထားတာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္မိုလို႔ ဒါေတြကို ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲမႈေတြ မလုပ္ေသးဘဲနဲ႔ အခုလိုမ်ိဳး ႐ုပ္သိမ္းဖို႔စဥ္းစားတဲ့ ကိစၥကိုေတာ့ျဖင့္ က်ေနာ့္အေနနဲ႔ လံုး၀ မေထာက္ခံပါဘူး။”

ၾသစေၾတးလ်ႏိုင္ငံ ျမန္မာ့ေရးရာ႐ံုး ညႊန္ၾကားေရးမွဴးလည္းျဖစ္တဲ့ ေဒါက္တာျမင့္ခ်ိဳက အခုလို ေလွ်ာ့ေပးတာကို အံ့ၾသမိတယ္လို႔ ဆိုပါတယ္။

“က်ေနာ့္အေနနဲ႔ တစ္ခုအံ့ၾသတာက မၾကာေသးခင္က ဘာလီမွာျပဳလုပ္သြားတဲ့ အာဆီယံ ထိပ္သီးစည္းေ၀းပြဲမွာ ၾသစေၾတးလ် ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ ဂ်ဴလီယာေဂးလပ္ က အခု အေျပာင္းအလဲေတြ ျဖစ္ေနတဲ့အေပၚမွာေတာ့ ႀကိဳဆိုတယ္။ ဒါေပမဲ့ တကယ့္ကို ဒီမိုကေရစီေရးကို ေရွ႕႐ႈတဲ့ အေျပာင္းအလဲေတြ ခိုင္ခိုင္မာမာ မေတြ႔မခ်င္းေတာ့ ပစ္မွတ္ထား ပိတ္ဆို႔ဒဏ္ခတ္တဲ့ ကိစၥေတြကို ႐ုပ္သိမ္းမွာမဟုတ္ဘူး။ ေနာက္… အေျပာင္းအလဲေတြ မျဖစ္ဘူးဆုိရင္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာ အာဆီယံ ထိပ္သီးစည္းေ၀းပြဲေတာင္မွ တက္ခ်င္မွတက္မယ္ ဆိုၿပီးေတာ့ ျပတ္ျပတ္သားသား ေျပာထားတာရွိပါတယ္။

“အဲဒီေတာ့ ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသား လႊတ္ေပးတယ္ဆိုတာကလည္း ၃၄ ေယာက္ေလာက္ပဲ ရွိတဲ့အခါက်ေတာ့ ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ ေျပာစကားအရဆိုရင္ ဒါဟာ ဘယ္လိုမွ အေလွ်ာ့ေပးသင့္တဲ့ အေျခအေန မဟုတ္ဘူးလို႔ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ ယူဆတယ္။”

ေဒါက္တာျမင့္ခ်ိဳ ကပဲ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာ အခ်ိဳ႕စျဖစ္လာတဲ့ အေျပာင္းအလဲေတြကို ႀကိဳဆိုေပမဲ့ ဆက္ၿပီး ေနာက္ထပ္ လုပ္ေပးဖို႔ အမ်ားႀကီး ရွိေနေသးတယ္၊ ဒါေၾကာင့္မို႔ ေလွ်ာ့ေပးသင့္တဲ့ အခ်ိန္နဲ႔ပတ္သက္ၿပီး အခုလို ဆက္ရွင္းျပပါတယ္။

“ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေတြကို အားလံုး လႊတ္ေပးဖို႔လိုတယ္။ တိုင္းရင္းသားေတြကို ထိုးစစ္ဆင္ေနတာေတြ ရပ္ေပးဖုိ႔လိုတယ္။ တိုင္းရင္းသားေတြပါတဲ့ အားလံုး ေတြ႔ဆံု ေဆြးေႏြးမႈေတြ လုပ္ေပးဖို႔လိုတယ္။”

အခုလို အခ်ိန္မတန္ခင္ ေလွ်ာ့ေပးလိုက္မႈေၾကာင့္ ျဖစ္ေပၚလာမယ့္ အက်ိဳးဆက္ေတြကိုလည္း စိုးရိမ္မိတယ္လို႔လည္း ေဒါက္တာ ျမင့္ခ်ိဳက ေထာက္ျပပါတယ္။

“ဒီလိုအခ်ိန္မတန္ဘဲ ေလွ်ာ့ေပးျခင္းအားျဖင့္ လက္ရွိ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံကို အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေနတဲ့ ဦးသိန္းစိန္ ေခါင္းေဆာင္တဲ့ အစိုးရကေန၊ တို႔ေတြ ဒီေလာက္လုပ္ေပးရင္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာက ေလွ်ာ့ေပးလာမွာပဲ ဆိုၿပီးေတာ့ ဆက္ၿပီးေတာ့ ေလွ်ာ့ေပးစရာ ေျပာင္းလဲစရာေတြကို မလုပ္ေတာ့ဘဲနဲ႔ ရပ္တန္႔သြားႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ ဒီအက်ိဳးဆက္က ႏိုင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသားေတြ လႊတ္ေပးဖို႔ကိစၥမွာလည္း ေႏွာင့္ေႏွးသြားႏိုင္ပါတယ္ခင္ဗ်။”

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအေပၚ ဆက္လက္ ထားရွိေသးတဲ့ ၾသစေၾတးလ်ႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ ဒဏ္ခတ္မႈတခ်ိဳ႕ကိုလည္း ေနာက္ထပ္ လြယ္လြယ္ကူကူ အခ်ိန္မတန္ခင္ အခုလို ေလွ်ာ့မေပးလိုက္ဖို႔ ဆက္လက္ ေတာင္းဆိုလႈပ္ရွားသြားမယ္လို႔ ေဒါက္တာျမင့္ခ်ိဳက ဆိုပါတယ္။
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