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UNCLAS STATE 050384 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL UNSC BM
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE REQUEST:  UN SECURITY COUNCIL ACTION ON 
BURMA IN WAKE OF CHARGES AGAINST AUNG SAN SUU KYI 
 
¶1.  (U)  This is an action request.  Please see paras 2 and 3. 
 
¶2.  (U)  Embassy Beijing and Embassy Hanoi are requested to 
demarche host governments at the highest possible level to 
press for UN Security Council action on Burma in the wake of 
the decision by the Burmese regime to bring new charges 
against Daw Aung San Suu Kyi stemming from an unwelcome and 
ininvited intrusion into her home. 
 
¶3.  (U)  Other posts are requested to demarche host 
governments at the highest appropriate levels. 
 
¶4.  (U)  Posts may draw on the following talking points: 
 
-- We ask for your government's support for action in the UN 
Security Council on Burma following the Burmese regime's 
decision to bring new charges against her stemming from an 
uninvited intrusion into her home. 
 
-- We call on the Burmese regime to drop the new charges 
against Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and to immediately release her 
from detention. 
 
-- We also call on the Burmese regime to create the necessary 
conditions for a genuine dialogue with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi 
and all concerned parties and ethnic groups in order to 
achieve inclusive national reconciliation with the direct 
support of the United Nations. 
 
End talking points. 
 
¶5.  (U) Background: Aung San Suu Kyi is due to return to 
court in Rangoon on May 18.  She is being charged with 
violating the terms of her house arrest for failing to report 
to the police the presence of an intruder into her home last 
week.  Her current period of detention is due to expire on 
May 27.  It is widely believed that the Burmese regime will 
use these spurious charges to extend Aung San Suu Kyi's 
detention beyond the elections planned for 2010. 
CLINTON