Global Parliamentary Appeal For Democracy In Burma   Nations to do everything in his power to press the State Law and Order Restoration Council of Burma to take the following measures: The immediate and unconditional release of Aung San Suu Kyi and all political prisoners, with guarantees for their complete freedom. The swift

External Affairs  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the fourth anniversary which occurred just last week of the democratic election in Myanmar or Burma. Unfortunately we cannot celebrate this important date because a repressive military regime has not allowed the democratically elected

Tiananmen Square   are all continuing in China. As well, China continues to ruthlessly suppress the human rights and religious freedoms of the people of Tibet and to supply arms to bloody military regimes such as Burma. Finally, our government must be just as vigorous and publicly outspoken in defence

Human Rights  Mr. Speaker, yesterday Mr. Win, democratically elected Prime Minister of the provisional government of the Union of Burma, which is prevented from taking office by a military junta, was the guest of the human rights committee. The committee members learned that Burma has one

Human Rights  Mr. Speaker, if I understand the first part of his question, the member is making a request on behalf of democratic peoples who are fighting for the return of democracy in Burma? Do I understand him correctly? I met their leaders yesterday, and they asked me just about

Human Rights  Through you, Mr. Speaker, I must tell the Deputy Prime Minister that she did not understand. There is a military junta in power in Burma, and the league is asking that UN agencies not give it any support. My first question dealt with that request, and we are counting

Human Rights   to the United Nations through the auspices of the human rights commission headed by Mr. Ed Broadbent in Montreal; for the strong stand we have taken in ensuring that no direct government assistance goes to the Government of Burma; and for promoting at the ASEAN meeting that is going

Burma  Mr. Speaker, I stand in the House today to focus attention on Burma. July 20 marked the fifth year of house arrest for Aung San Suu Kyi. Ms. Suu Kyi was elected by the Burmese people as leader of the opposition in 1989. Despite suggestions that it is willing to open

Unemployment Insurance Act   promotion. To address this contradiction we have no reason to be proud of, I shall refer to a question I had put to the Deputy Prime Minister on June 10. I asked the Deputy Prime Minister this question on June 10, following a visit by the Prime Minister in exile of Burma to the Standing

Unemployment Insurance Act  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to address the member's question directly. Canada's relations with Burma are limited because we remain concerned about the deplorable human rights situation and lack of progress toward democracy in Burma. Human rights abuses continue unabated

Ms. Suu Kyi  Mr. Speaker, on September 20 I stood in the House to draw attention to the continued imprisonment of Ms. Suu Kyi, the leader who was democratically elected by the majority of the Burmese people. Ms. Suu Kyi has been under house arrest since 1989. Burma's military regime did

Burmese Refugees  Mr. Speaker, I recently returned from a trip to Burma and Thailand. While making that trip I learned a lot about human rights and some of the concerns the local people have. I had an opportunity to visit the refugee camps on the Thailand-Burma border, where there are more than

Foreign Affairs  Mr. Speaker, is the Minister of Foreign Affairs saying he rejects that possibility with respect to any country guilty of severe human rights violations, whether it be Burma in the present or South Africa in the past? The government from now on will rely on good rapport

Human Rights   means of promoting the respect of human rights. These words will be of no comfort to those on death row in Indonesia, China, Saudi Arabia, Burma and Iraq. The most ironic thing about the whole situation is that the Liberal government, with the Prime Minister showing the way, is so

Exports Of Military Equipment   of the 39 countries ravaged by civil war last year, in contravention of the arms exports controls. How can the Minister of National Defence explain the fact that the government authorized the sale of Canadian-made arms and military equipment to countries like Peru, Turkey and Burma