EU Presidency Declaration on possible extension of house arrest for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

EU calls for the release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

The EU strongly reiterates its call on the authorities of Burma/Myanmar to release Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the National League for Democracy, from house arrest and to free all other political detainees. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate has now been held in isolation without charge for four consecutive years since the attack on her convoy on 30 May 2003, and has spent more than eleven of the last 17 years in detention.

The end of her present term of detention on 27 May 2007 should be seen as an opportunity for national reconciliation and genuine democratic transition, to which the government has repeatedly declared itself to be committed. The EU also joins other members of the international community who have called on Burma/Myanmar to listen to the voice of its people, and to allow them to develop and achieve prosperity.

The Candidate Countries Turkey, Croatia* and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia*, the Countries of the Stabilisation and Association Process and potential candidates Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, and the EFTA countries Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, members of the European Economic Area, as well as Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova align themselves with this declaration.


*Croatia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia continue to be part of the Stabilisation and Association Process.

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