BURMA: ASEAN warns against regime change

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Updated October 17, 2007 19:45:24

U-N special envoy Ibrahim Gambari has confirmed he'll be making another visit to Burma next month. The diplomat has also used his latest mission to Asia to call on Southeast Asian nations to turn their rhetoric on Burma into real action. But the more radical suggestion of suspending Burma from membership of the 10-nation ASEAN bloc has been widely rejected.

Presenter: Girish Sawlani
Speakers: Yang Razali Kassim, senior fellow, Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University; Garry Woodard, former Australian ambassador to Burma

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