A meeting Tuesday at the UN General Assembly on a non-binding resolution providing for
"an immediate suspension"
of any transfer of arms to Burma was
"postponed sine die" for
lack of sufficient support to approve it, a- we learned Monday, May 17 from diplomatic sources.
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The authors of the text
"did not have the support they expected"
to guarantee a vote by a large majority in the Assembly which includes 193 member countries, said a diplomat on condition of anonymity. They want
"more time for negotiations, especially with Asean"
(Association of Southeast Asian Nations), another source told AFP, also on condition of anonymity.
The text comes from an initiative by Liechtenstein, supported in particular by the European Union, the United Kingdom and the United States.
A total of 48 countries from Europe, America and Africa, but only one representing Asia - South Korea - co-sponsored the draft resolution.
The latter was the subject of negotiations for several weeks to benefit in particular from support from ASEAN member countries, according to diplomats.
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Non-binding unlike Security Council resolutions but with strong political significance, the text provides for
"an immediate suspension of the supply, sale or direct and indirect transfer of all arms, ammunition and other military equipment to Burma"
.
He calls on the Burmese military authorities who took power on February 1 during a coup
"to put an end to the state of emergency"
and
"to immediately cease all violence against peaceful demonstrators"
.
He also calls on them
"to release immediately and unconditionally"
President Win Myint and civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, as well as all those arbitrarily detained.
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The project also asks
"Burma to implement without delay"
the plan towards a return to democracy drawn up by ASEAN,
"to facilitate without delay a visit by the UN envoy"
, prohibited from entering. in the country so far, and to allow
“safe and unhindered humanitarian access”
.
The Burmese army put an end to a 10-year democratic parenthesis in Burma in a February 1 coup.
Since then, it has suppressed almost daily demonstrations in the blood.