Monday August 17, 2009, 3:13 am
In January 2007, before the repressed uprising later that year, the US and UK sponsored a Security Council resolution urging Burma to open dialogue with the opposition. Nine countries voted in favour, three abstained and two voted against. The resolution failed because two of the negative votes were from Russia and China, both veto holders.
It is true that the council issued statements after the 2007 protests calling on the Burmese government to create conditions for a dialogue - but that was not a full resolution and did not commit the member states to anything.

An arms embargo would be a major signal and is much harder to achieve.
So there will be a lot of harsh criticism of Burma and calls for joint action, but the prospect of a formal worldwide arms embargo must be minimal.
...Talks, talks, talks, talks, talks, and more talks...

Monday August 17, 2009, 3:41 am
The United Nation's results so far? -Tell me about it!
What about establish a United DEMOCRATIC Nations?
The Dicktatorships Mutual Admiration Society does NOT belong there...

Monday August 17, 2009, 4:35 am
United nation is only a show case controlled by the 4 vetoes! we need a new world with new Integrity to bring true value in our WORLD! when the price of human value is weight by how much fossil Oil ! How much to a $$ is a human life?
Namaste, peace be with us all!

Monday August 17, 2009, 4:41 am
ASEAN IGNORES HUMANRIGHTS
Twelve years ago, the late Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas defended opening the door of ASEAN to authoritarian countries such as Burma, Cambodia and Laos by saying “No international organization places human rights as a conditionality of membership, not even the United Nations”. With democracy on the march in Indonesia, the largest country of the group, and unremitting political and civil rights violations in others—especially Burma—that precedence of process over substance has become a haunting liability for ASEAN. For ASEAN, the ruling regime in Burma is an insufferable embarrassment to both soft authoritarian regimes like Singapore and thriving democracies such as Indonesia. The embarrassment was highlighted during the recent annual summit of the group at which the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lambasted Burma for its terrible human rights record before an uncomfortable group of senior officials.

The so-called ‘ASEAN Way’ – a preference for decorum based on non-interference and adherence to a consensus decision making process irrespective of the consequent iniquities—has so far guided the organization. The ASEAN ‘union’ was in itself a remarkable achievement for a region which has no history of regional cooperation, and months before the founding still embroiled in low intensity conflicts. The way that came to guide the group evolved out the vested interests of its five founding members—Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand – to create a passive regional environment which allowed them to focus individually on economic development thereby justifying their respective autocracies.
To be continued...
http://dassk.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=7740a8e4a8827e327b36f6cf60efb007&/topic,11111636.0.html

Monday August 17, 2009, 7:53 am
JUNTA SHOULD BE DISINTEGRATED, THATS THE ONLY WAY...

Wednesday August 19, 2009, 7:42 am
Asean Officials to Discuss Suu Kyi Pardon Proposal.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009. (Irrawaddy)
A Thai government proposal for a request by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to the Burmese junta to pardon Aung San Suu Kyi is expected to be discussed at a meeting of senior Asean officials in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, on Wednesday and Thursday.

Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya said on Monday that the pardon proposal had been winning more support among Asean member countries, according to a report in the Bangkok English-language daily The Nation.
Cambodia and Vietnam, however, were reported to be still opposed to the proposal.
“We respect Burma's justice system but are concerned about the unity of Asean too, since Aung San Suu Kyi's case makes Asean and Burma a common target,” Kasit was quoted in The Nation.

Kasit noted that Cambodia and Vietnam, as well as Indonesia and Singapore, had spoken positively about the rate of progress in Burma.
American Senator Jim Webb, who met Burmese junta leader Than Shwe in Naypyidaw last week, said in a CNN interview on Monday that an Asean request for a pardon for Suu Kyi would be a “major step forward in resolving the situation.”

Webb said: "I am of the understanding that we are possibly going to see from Asean. a petition of some sort that would ask for amnesty for her as well.”
During his visit to Burma, Webb, chairman of a US Senate foreign relations sub-committee on East Asia, secured the release of John Yettaw, the American who intruded into Suu Kyi’s home and then found himself on trial alongside the pro-democracy leader. Yettaw was sentenced to seven years imprisonment, while Suu Kyi was given a further 18 months’ house arrest.

Burma will also be on the agenda of an Asean summit in October in Thailand, when leaders of the grouping will announce the formation of the Asean Human Rights Body. Observers say Burma is one of the issues challenging the credibility of the first human rights body in the region.
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=16594
If not NOW - WHEN???

Monday August 24, 2009, 9:15 am
"The Burmese soldiers and officers must be told of their tarnished prestige and the harm done to their country by a few decrepit and corrupt generals who are involved in mass murder and the plundering of their country. "
(Jose Ramos Horta, President of East Timor)