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(US Lawmaker, 2 Diplomats to Visit Burma) အေမရိကန္ အရာရွိႀကီး ၂ ဦး ျမန္မာျပည္သြားမည္


Ambassador Luis CdeBaca

Two senior U.S. diplomats and a lawmaker will make separate trips to Burma next week to encourage its new government on its path to reform.

U.S. Congressman Joe Crowley will travel for a two-day visit to Burma on January 12 for talks with government officials, ethnic minority leaders and the main opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. In the past, Crowley called for tougher sanctions on Burma's former military leaders for their repression of freedom and human rights. 

Derek Mitchell, who has visited the country several times since his August appointment as U.S. special envoy for Burma, will travel there Monday. In addition to visiting the capital Naypyidaw and Burma's largest city of Rangoon, Mitchell will also travel to Bagan to see microfinance programs and other development work.

Also traveling to the Asian country Monday will be State Department's ambassador-at-large on combating human trafficking, Luis CdeBaca. The purpose of his trip is to assess the human trafficking situation and ways to help the government's anti-trafficking efforts. In Naypytaw, he will join Mitchell in discussing steps to address transnational sex trafficking and improve labor conditions.

The U.S. officials' visit to the Southeast Asian country comes on the heels of Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague who ended his two-day visit to Burma this week. Hague repeatedly urged the new Burmese government, which took over in March, to free all the remaining political prisoners. Speaking to reporters Friday, Hague said there is no reason for delay.

"It is very important to countries like the United Kingdom, to our partners in the European Union, that the release of prisoners is completed, and that the remaining prisoners are released, and I see no reason for any further delay in releasing those people from jail," said Hague.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Burma in November. The flurry of diplomatic activity in Burma started after the new government made significant moves toward democracy. The new nominally civilian leadership has modified laws that barred opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi from participating in the political life and has started a dialogue with ethnic minorities. The leaders also put a halt on a controversial dam project. But western governments and rights groups insist that Burma must release all political prisoners before sanctions can be lifted.


အေမရိကန္ႏုိင္ငံရဲ႕ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဆုိင္ရာ မူ၀ါဒေရးရာ ညိႇႏိႈင္းေရးမွဴး ျဖစ္တဲ့ အထူးကိုယ္စားလွယ္ ဒဲရက္မစ္ခ်ဲလ္နဲ႔ အေမရိကန္ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရးဌာနက လူကုန္ကူးမႈ တုိက္ဖ်က္ေရးဆုိင္ရာ သံအမတ္ႀကီး လူး၀စ္ဆီဒါဘက္ကာ (Luis CdeBaca) တို႔ဟာ ဇန္န၀ါရီလ ၉ ရက္၊ တနလၤာေန႔မွာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံကို သြားေရာက္ၾကမယ္လို႔ အေမရိကန္ ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရးဌာနက ေျပာပါတယ္။ ဒီခရီးစဥ္အတြင္း ႏိုင္ငံေရး ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲမႈသာမက ဒဏ္ခတ္ပိတ္ဆို႔မႈအတြက္ အက်ံဳး၀င္ေနတဲ့ လူကုန္ကူးမႈ၊ အလုပ္သမား အခြင့္အေရး၊ နယ္စပ္ ဒုကၡသည္အေရးေတြကိုပါ ေလ့လာသံုးသပ္ဖို႔ရွိတယ္လို႔ သိရပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံကို စီးပြားေရး ပိတ္ဆို႔ အေရးယူ ဒဏ္ခတ္မႈေတြ ခ်မွတ္ထားတဲ့ အေမရိကန္ ႏုိင္ငံက တိုက္႐ိုက္ထိေတြ႔ ဆက္ဆံမႈေတြကို မၾကာခင္လေတြအတြင္းမွာပဲ တုိးျမႇင့္လုပ္လာခဲ့တာပါ။

ဒီဇင္ဘာ လဆန္းပိုင္းက အေမရိကန္ ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီး ဟီလာရီကလင္တန္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံကို သြားေရာက္ခဲ့ၿပီးတဲ့ေနာက္ အတူ လုိက္ပါသြားခဲ့တဲ့ အထူးကိုယ္စားလွယ္ ဒဲရက္မစ္ခ်ဲလ္ဟာ မၾကာေသးခင္ကပဲ ေဒသတြင္း အင္အားႀကီး သံုးႏုိင္ငံျဖစ္တဲ့ တ႐ုတ္၊ ဂ်ပန္နဲ႔ ေတာင္ကိုရီးယားႏိုင္ငံေတြကိုပါ သြားေရာက္ၿပီး ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရးအတြက္ ပူးေပါင္း ေဆာင္ရြက္မႈေတြရေအာင္ ႀကိဳးစားခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ေရွ႕သီတင္းပတ္ထဲမွာေတာ့ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံကို ထပ္မံသြားေရာက္ဖို႔ ရွိတယ္လို႔ အေမရိကန္ ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရးဌာန ေျပာခြင့္ရက ဗြီအိုေအကို ေျပာပါတယ္။

“ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံဆုိင္ရာ အေမရိကန္ မူ၀ါဒ ညိႇႏိႈင္းေရးမွဴးျဖစ္တဲ့ အထူးကိုယ္စားလွယ္ ဒဲရက္မစ္ခ်ဲလ္ဟာ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံနဲ႔ ထိုင္းႏုိင္ငံ ေျမာက္ပိုင္း ျမန္မာနယ္စပ္ ေဒသကို ဇန္န၀ါရီလ ၉ ရက္ေန႔ကေန ၁၃ ရက္ေန႔ေတြမွာ သြားမွာပါ။ ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီး ကလင္တန္ရဲ႕ ဒီဇင္ဘာခရီးစဥ္ ေနာက္ဆက္တြဲ လုပ္ငန္းေတြအတြက္ ေနျပည္ေတာ္မွာေရာ ရန္ကုန္မွာပါ တာ၀န္ရွိသူေတြနဲ႔ ေတြ႔ဆံုမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ မစၥတာ မစ္ခ်ဲလ္ဟာ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ အပူပိုင္းေဒသက အေသးစား ေငြေခ်းလုပ္ငန္း အစီအစဥ္ေတြနဲ႔ တျခား ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးေရးလုပ္ငန္းေတြကိုပါ ၾကည့္ဖို႔ သြားမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။”

မစၥတာ မစ္ခ်ဲလ္ဟာ ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံေျမာက္ပိုင္းက ျမန္မာနယ္စပ္ေဒသမွာ ျမန္မာဒုကၡသည္ေတြအတြက္ အကူအညီေတြ ေပးေနတဲ့ အဖြဲ႔ေတြအျပင္ ထိုင္းအရာရွိေတြနဲ႔ပါ ေတြ႔ဆံုၿပီး ျမန္မာဒုကၡသည္ေတြရဲ႕အေရးကိုပါ စမ္းစစ္ဖို႔ရွိပါတယ္။ အေမရိကန္ႏုိင္ငံက ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအေပၚ အေရးယူဒဏ္ခတ္မႈေတြ ခ်မွတ္ထားတာမွာ ႏုိင္ငံေရး ဖိႏွိပ္မႈသက္သက္ေၾကာင့္တင္ မဟုတ္ဘဲ ဘာသာေရးဖိႏွိပ္မႈ၊ မူးယစ္ေဆး၀ါးနဲ႔ လူကုန္ကူးမႈဆိုင္ရာ ျပႆနာေတြအျပင္ ကေလးစစ္သားနဲ႔ အလုပ္သမားဆုိင္ရာ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ခ်ိဳးေဖာက္မႈေတြပါ ပါ၀င္တာမို႔ ဒီ အေရးယူဒဏ္ခတ္မႈေတြကို ေျဖေလွ်ာ့ေပးႏုိင္မယ့္ အေနအထား ရွိမရွိ အေမရိကန္ႏိုင္ငံဘက္က ေလ့လာစမ္းစစ္ဖို႔ လိုပါတယ္။ အခု မစၥတာ မစ္ခ်ဲလ္နဲ႔အတူ လူကုန္ကူးမႈ တိုက္ဖ်က္ေရးဆိုင္ရာ အေမရိကန္အရာရွိပါ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံကို လာေရာက္မယ္လုိ႔ ဆိုပါတယ္။

“လူကုန္ကူးမႈ တိုက္ဖ်က္ေရးဆိုင္ရာ သံအမတ္ လူး၀စ္ဆီဒါဘက္ကာ ကေတာ့ ဇန္န၀ါရီလ ၉ ရက္ေန႔ကေန ၁၁ ရက္ေန႔အထိ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံကို သြားမွာပါ။ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံက လူကုန္ကူးမႈ အေျခအေနေတြကို ကိုယ္တိုင္ၾကည့္ဖို႔အျပင္ ျမန္မာအစိုးရရဲ႕ လူကုန္ကူးမႈ တိုက္ဖ်က္ေရး ႀကိဳးပမ္းခ်က္ေတြကို ဘယ္လို အကူအညီေပးႏုိင္မလဲ ဆုိတာကိုပါ စမ္းစစ္မွာပါ။ ေနျပည္ေတာ္မွာ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံဆိုင္ရာ အထူးကိုယ္စားလွယ္ ဒဲရက္မစ္ခ်ဲလ္နဲ႔အတူ ျမန္မာအစိုးရ တာ၀န္ရွိသူေတြကို ေတြ႔ဆံုတဲ့အခါ နယ္ေျမ ေက်ာ္ျဖတ္ၿပီး လိင္ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖမႈနဲ႔ ဆက္ႏြယ္တဲ့ လူကုန္ကူးမႈအျပင္ အလုပ္သမားေတြရဲ႕ အေျခအေန တုိးတက္မႈဆုိင္ရာေတြကို ေဆြးေႏြးဖို႔ရွိပါတယ္။”

လူကုန္ကူးမႈ တုိက္ဖ်က္ေရးဆိုင္ရာ သံအမတ္ႀကီး ဆီဒါဘက္ကာ ဟာ ရန္ကုန္မွာ အစိုးရမဟုတ္တဲ့ NGO အဖြဲ႔အစည္းေတြ၊ ႏုိင္ငံတကာ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းေတြနဲ႔ ျမန္မာအစိုးရရဲ႕ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ေကာ္မရွင္နဲ႔ပါ ေတြ႔ဆံုဖို႔ရွိတယ္လို႔ ဆိုပါတယ္။

မစၥတာ မစ္ခ်ဲလ္နဲ႔ သံအမတ္ႀကီး ဆီဒါဘက္ကာတို႔အျပင္ အေမရိကန္ ေအာက္လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ ဂ်ိဳးဇက္ခ႐ုိလီ (Joseph Crowley) ဟာလည္း ေရွ႕သီတင္းပတ္ထဲမွာပဲ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံကို သြားေရာက္မွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံက အေျခအေနေတြကို ကိုယ္တိုင္ကိုယ္က် ေလ့လာဖို႔နဲ႔ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရး လမ္းေၾကာင္းေပၚ ဆက္သြားေရး ျမန္မာအစိုးရကို တိုက္တြန္းအားေပးဖို႔ လာေရာက္မယ့္အေၾကာင္း၊ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရး လမ္းေၾကာင္းမွာ အစိုးရက တခ်ိဳ႕တ၀က္ လုပ္ေဆာင္ထားၿပီးျဖစ္ေပမဲ့ ေနာက္ထပ္ လုပ္ေဆာင္ဖို႔ လုိတာေတြ ရွိေနေသးေၾကာင္းနဲ႔ ႏွစ္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာ မိမိေလးစားခဲ့ရတဲ့ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္နဲ႔ ေတြ႔ဆံုဖို႔ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ေနပါတယ္လို႔ ဇန္န၀ါရီလ ၆ ရက္ေန႔ ေန႔စြဲနဲ႔ ထုတ္ျပန္တဲ့ ေၾကညာခ်က္မွာ မစၥတာ ခ႐ိုလီက ေျပာပါတယ္။

မစၥတာ ခ႐ုိလီဟာ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီေရးကို အစဥ္တစိုက္ ေထာက္ခံအားေပးလာခဲ့သူ ျဖစ္ၿပီး ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရ အဆက္ဆက္ကို အျပင္းအထန္ ေ၀ဖန္ေျပာဆိုေလ့ရွိသူ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ သူဟာ ၁၂ ႏွစ္အတြင္း ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံကို ပထမဆံုး လာေရာက္မယ့္ အေမရိကန္ ေအာက္လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
credit: VOA news

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