Myanmar

April 2005 | Risk Summary

A number of ASEAN countries are putting pressure on Myanmar over the slow progress the country is making towards democracy. A number of countries have even threatened to strip Myanmar of its chairmanship of the organisation, which it is due to take up in mid-2006, unless more is done to end political repression in the country. ASEAN is concerned that the US, which has attended ASEAN's annual meetings in the past, may decide to boycott next year's event in Rangoon unless the government frees the opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, from her house arrest. Myanmar has, as usual, promised

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