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Feb

New ICG Report on the Situation in Myanmar / Burma

[him] is back. There is always a wordflurry when a new ICG report is released. This report reminds the [him] moderator that China in the September 2006 Security Council meeting denied that human rights and HIV should be discussed: “During the debate, the Chinese permanent representative, Wang Guangya, argued that the Security Council was not the appropriate organ for consideration of “human rights questions, refugees, drugs and HIV/AIDS”. It would be “preposterous”, he claimed, to inscribe a country facing “similar issues … on the Council’s agenda”.

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