The European Parliament "praises the brave action by Burma monks and tenths of thousands of other peaceful demonstrators against the antidemocratic and repressive regime in power in Myanmar". It is one of the milestones of the resolution which the EU assembly approved today with really remarkable majority. It was jointly presented by almost all the political groups that were present in Strasbourg. The situation in Burma was discussed in the hemicycle yesterday. In these days, it was the subject of direct interventions by the president of the European Parliament himself, Hans-Gert Poettering, of a United States- EU joint declaration, and of a declaration by the current Portuguese presidency, in which the strengthening of "the current sanction regime" is announced, as a response to the violence exercised by the Yangon police. The text voted by the Parliament asks for "the immediate release of Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi", the opposition leader who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. Moreover, the Parliament asks for "her full freedom of movement and expression". The EU also asks for putting immediate end to any violence, and requires the intervention of the United Nations "to start an action with the aim of encouraging national reconciliation and transition toward democracy in such country".
