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Australia Eases Some Military Sanctions on Reforming Myanmar
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said restrictions would be lifted on military humanitarian aid and peacekeeping to Burma, but an arms sales embargo would stay in place. (Photo: Reuters/Stringer)
CANBERRA — Australia will ease restrictions on military engagement with Burma following democratic reforms since the country’s ruling generals relinquished their half-century grip on power in 2011, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Monday.
During a visit to Canberra by Myanmar’s President Thein Sein—the first leader from the former Burma to visit the Australian capital since 1974—Gillard said restrictions would be lifted on military humanitarian aid and peacekeeping, but an arms sales embargo would stay in place.
“What we’ve done today is taken a first step on defence relations between our two countries. It is not fully normalising defence relationships,” Gillard told reporters at a press conference with Thein Sein at Australia’s parliament.
Since Burma’s military stepped aside and a quasi-civilian government was installed in 2011, triggering a wave of political and economic reforms, western governments have cautiously dropped or eased sanctions against the country.
But the government still maintains a constitution drafted by the generals and reserves a quarter of parliamentary seats for military personnel, while barring Nobel laureate and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi from the presidency.
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in Burma last week warned that progress had been erratic in Myanmar, with around 250 political prisoners still behind bars and 120,000 people internally displaced.
Gillard said Australia, a rotating UN Security Council member and close US ally, would soon post a defence attaché to its embassy in Burma, and would also provide additional aid worth $20 million to train the government in human rights.
Thein Sein, a former junta general who has won praise for reforms since taking power in March 2011, said his government was looking to resource powerhouse Australia for investment and expertise in the country’s fledgling resource sector.
“We have to make sure that the extraction and exploitation of these resources is done properly,” he said.
Shut off from most of the world for decades, Burma is Asia’s poorest country.
Gillard’s government last year lifted targeted travel and financial sanctions on Burma outside military assistance, with aid set to double to $100 million a year by 2015.
Aussie is simple.
They want to get military hold on Asia as the economy of the world is moving that way as the Deputy Sheriff to their Papa Yanks, whose marine they are hosting happily. Obama was tipped off in Australia of this “Ripe” fruit by the Aussie, hence rash arrangement to dispatch Clinton woman to woo the easily woo-able people of Burma who like hungry children thought any big name person was their father and mother starting a roster of all.
.They would find the most Odious Bamar Sit-tut more than their liking with built-in hatred for the Chinese. And they want the rich resources off the country Burma. And they are used to lie and cheat for generations.
Made in Haven Marriage. Cake, anyone?
In short Australian dream to “do” Burma what eh yanks do the central American countries. Funny world! These highly educated and connected “experts” of and on Burma of academia and politics and “Media” seem to escape the notion that in South America, their current New Saviors, IMF, WB, IDB whihc are all bad words in all of South and Central America but they are GODS in Burma adn ASIA as those people have no ability to see the truth through what they regard as STATUS, that vain glorious crap. A Crystal from Christine Lagarde who said Money was THE answer for every thing in life, incidentally the exact feeling the Burmese have.
Oh, by the way, the real reason the economy is moving to Asia is not because of you lot in Asia are so, so advanced and superior than the Africans or South Americans or even Indians, or any such BS you guys like to BS yourselves, but because those people have just about finished destroying the land , poisoning the rivers and more importantly destroying the cohesive, peaceful societies into ghettorised slums infested with drugs, prostitution, gangs and all those niceties.
Burma can’t wait. Lucky Burma to have such intercourse with THE Lucky Country.