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To: stockman_scott who wrote (47050)	5/24/2004 4:42:10 PM
From: Joe S Pack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

As per this news even Burma is "unusual and extraordinary threat to American national security". Burma tells US to 'stop lecturing' Burma's military leaders have said the United States must stop lecturing them about democracy. They said events in Afghanistan and Iraq showed the dangers of imposing change on a country from the outside. In a statement, Burma's military junta said it was committed to restoring democracy, but at its own pace. Burma has been heavily criticised abroad for its alleged human rights abuses and the continued detention of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. "The recent developments in Iraq and Afghanistan are... classic examples of how wrong things could end up when the respective political histories, cultures, and security needs of a country are ... ignored in making a transition to democracy by forces from outside," the junta said in a statement. It also criticised a recent US statement which described Burma as an "unusual and extraordinary threat to American national security". Burma "has no weapons of mass destruction, no terrorist organisations, no missile programmes, no expansionist ambitions and no animosity towards the United States," the statement said. Burma is currently holding a national convention to draft a new constitution, which it claims is a key step in its "road map" to democracy. But the convention has been dismissed as irrelevant by the US and other countries, due to the absence of delegates from Aung San Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy (NLD). The NLD boycotted the convention due to the continued detention of both Aung San Suu Kyi and chairman Tin Oo, as well as the enforced closure of its regional offices. But despite the NLD's absence, Burma's military rulers said in its statement that the convention "will lay the foundation for elections and for a stable, democratic, and representative nation". Story from BBC NEWS: news.bbc.co.uk