US Lawmakers Call For UN Action Over Myanmar Crackdown

"We strongly urge you to send a letter to the President of the Security Council requesting UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to expeditiously provide a complete briefing to the Security Council," Tom Lantos, the Democratic head of the House's foreign relations committee, and four other lawmakers from the chamber wrote. A similar call was made in a separate letter to the chief US diplomat by the Senate's Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and senior Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein. "The current situation in Burma merits a strong and meaningful response by our government," they said. The lawmakers welcomed the Bush administration's swift condemnation of the Myanmar junta's "brutal behavior" as well as similar condemnations from France and Britain -- two other permanent members of the Security Council -- along with Canada, Sweden, Ireland, Denmark, the European Union, and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. "However, at this critical juncture, words of support from the world's democracies are not enough," McConnell and Feinstein said. "The matter needs to be addressed by the UN Security Council." http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/The_United_States/US_lawmakers_call_for_UN_action_over_Myanmar_crackdown/articleshow/2321654.cms

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