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Southeast Asian leaders, having launched the region's first human rights watchdog, called Oct. 25 on military-ruled Myanmar to conduct free and fair elections next year but refrained from criticizing one of the world's worst human rights offenders.

Activists criticized the annual summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for taking an even softer line on Myanmar than in the past, and ignoring growing demands to press for the release of detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

A statement from the leaders did not mention Suu Kyi, sparing the junta a public scolding. It only underscored the importance of achieving national reconciliation and that the general elections to be held in Myanmar in 2010 must be conducted in a fair, free, inclusive and transparent manner in order to be credible to the international community. (AP)

ASEAN首脳会議、タイで開催

第4回東アジア首脳会議が10月25日タイで開催され、ミャンマーの民主化問題など、さまざまな問題が協議された。

Shukan ST: November 6, 2009

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