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 ေသာၾကာ, 13 ဇန္နဝါရီ 2012

ျမန္မာနဲ႔ အေမရိကန္ သံအမတ္ႀကီးအဆင့္ ဆက္သြယ္ေတာ့မည္

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ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံမွာ ႏုိင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသား အမ်ားအျပားကုိ လႊတ္ေပးလုိက္တာ၊ တုိင္းရင္းသား လက္နက္ကုိင္ အဖဲြ႔ေတြနဲ႔ အပစ္အခတ္ ရပ္စဲေရး သေဘာတူညီခဲ့တာလုိ အေျပာင္းအလဲေတြ ထြက္ေပၚလာတဲ့အတြက္ အေမရိကန္ အစုိးရက ဆက္ဆံေရးေတြ တုိးျမႇင့္သြားဖုိ႔ ဆုံးျဖတ္လုိက္တဲ့အေၾကာင္း ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီး ဟီလာရီ ကလင္တန္ (Hilary Clinton) က ေၾကညာလုိက္ပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာအစုိးရအေပၚ ျပစ္ဒဏ္ခတ္ အေရးယူမႈေတြ ခ်မွတ္ထားတဲ့ အေမရိကန္ ျပည္ေထာင္စုက သံအမတ္ႀကီးေတြ အျပန္အလွန္ ခန္႔အပ္တဲ့အထိ ေဆာင္ရြက္သြားမွာ ျဖစ္တဲ့အေၾကာင္း ေသာၾကာေန႔ ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရး ၀န္ႀကီးဌာနမွာ ျပဳလုပ္တဲ့ အထူးသတင္းစာ ရွင္းလင္းပဲြအတြင္း ေျပာဆုိလုိက္တာပါ။

"ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာ ဒီကေန႔ ရာနဲ႔ခ်ီတဲ့ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေတြကို လႊတ္ေပးခဲ့တာကို၊ သမၼတအိုဘားမားနဲ႔ အတူ၊ က်မက ႀကိဳဆိုပါတယ္။ ဒါဟာ ျမန္မာအစိုးရက ႏိုင္ငံေရးျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲပါမယ္ ဆိုတဲ့ကတိကို၊ ေလးေလးနက္နက္ ေဖၚေဆာင္လိုက္တဲ့အတြက္၊ က်မက ခ်ီးက်ဴးပါတယ္။ ႏိုင္ငံတကာအသိုင္းအ၀ိုင္းတခုလံုး ကလည္း က်မလိုပဲ ခ်ီးက်ဴးေထာပနာျပဳသင့္ပါတယ္။

ဒီကေန႔ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ အက်ဥ္းေထာင္ေတြကေန၊ ျပန္လႊတ္လိုက္တဲ့သူေတြထဲမွာ ကိုယ့္ယံုၾကည္ခ်က္ေပၚ ခိုင္ခိုင္မာမာရပ္တည္ရာမွာ ထင္ရွားေက်ာ္ၾကားၾကသူ ေတြနဲ႔ မၾကာခင္က သူတို႔ႏိုင္ငံသမိုင္းထဲက ဒီမိုကေရစီနဲ႔ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးတို႔အတြက္ အေရးပါလွတဲ့အခ်ိန္ေတြမွာ သတိၱရိွရိွ တိုက္ပဲြ၀င္ခဲ့တဲ့ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြ အမ်ားႀကီး ပါ၀င္ပါတယ္။ သူတို႔ႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ ျပည္သူလူထုအားလံုး လိုပဲ၊ သူတို႔ဟာ သူတို႔ဘ၀ေတြအေပၚ အက်ိဳးသက္ေရာက္ေစမယ့္ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္ေတြအတြက္ သူတို႔ ရဲ႕ သေဘာထားေတြကို သူတို႔ကိုယ္တိုင္ ထုတ္ေဖၚဖြင့္ကို ထိုက္ထိုက္တန္တန္ကို လုိခ်င္ေနၾကပါတယ္။

ျမန္မာအစိုးရနဲ႔ ကရင္အမ်ိဳးသားအစည္းအရံုးတို႔ၾကားမွာ အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရးသေဘာတူညီခ်က္ တစ္ရပ္ရရိွတဲ့ သတင္းကိုလည္း၊ က်မက ႀကိဳဆိုပါတယ္။ ကရင္အမ်ိဳးသားအစည္းအရံုးဟာ ကမၻာေပၚက အရွည္အၾကာဆံုး ေတာ္လွန္ေရးေတြထဲက တစ္ခုမွာ ၊ ပါ၀င္ေနခဲ့ၿပီးေတာ့၊ အခုလို အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲမႈကို သေဘာတူလက္ခံျခင္းအားျဖင့္၊ ကရင္လူထုရဲ႕ ကာလၾကာရွည္ ခံစားေနရတဲ့ ဒုကၡေတြကို စတင္ေျဖရွင္းေပးတဲ့ တိုးတက္တဲ့ေျခလွမ္းတလွမ္းကို လွမ္းလိုက္ တာလည္း ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ဒီလုိအားတက္စရာ အေျခအေနမွာ အမ်ဳိးသား ျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရးအတြက္ တုိင္းရင္းသား အုပ္စုေတြနဲ႔ အဓိပၸါယ္ ျပည့္၀တဲ့ ေဆြးေႏြးေျပာဆုိမႈေတြ လုပ္ေဆာင္ဖုိ႔၊ သတင္းမီဒီယာေတြနဲ႔ လူသားခ်င္းစာနာမႈ အကူအညီေပးေနတဲ့ အဖဲြ႔အစည္းေတြကုိ တုိင္းရင္းသား ေဒသေတြဆီ သြားေရာက္ခြင့္ျပဳဖုိ႔လည္း အစုိးရကုိ တုိက္တြန္းခ်င္ပါတယ္။ အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲလုိက္တာ၊ ႏုိင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသားေတြ ျပန္လႊတ္ေပးလုိက္တာေတြ သာမက ၂၀၁၁ ခုႏွစ္ ဧၿပီလကစလုိ႔ အာဏာရလာခဲ့တဲ့ အရပ္သား ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြ အေနနဲ႔ သတင္းမီဒီယာေတြနဲ႔ လူမႈအဖဲြ႔အစည္းေတြ အေပၚ ကန္႔သတ္မႈေတြ ေလွ်ာ့ေပါ့ေပးတာ၊ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္နဲ႔ အေလးအနက္ထား ေဆြးေႏြးေျပာဆုိလာတာ၊ ႏုိင္ငံေရး လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္မွာ အမ်ဳိးသား ဒီမုိကေရစီအဖဲြ႔ခ်ဳပ္ ပါ၀င္လာႏုိင္ေအာင္ လမ္းဖြင့္ေပးတဲ့ ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြဥပေဒကုိ ျပင္ဆင္လုိက္တာ၊ ၾကားျဖတ္ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြအတြက္ ေန႔ရက္သတ္မွတ္ေပးတာ၊ လြတ္လပ္စြာ စုေ၀းခြင့္နဲ႔ အလုပ္သမား အခြင့္အေရးေတြကုိ အကာအကြယ္ေပးတဲ့ ဥပေဒသစ္ေတြကုိ အတည္ျပဳလုိက္တာ၊ ကုလသမဂၢနဲ႔ အစုိးရမဟုတ္တဲ့ အဖဲြ႔အစည္း NGOs ေတြကုိ ပဋိပကၡျဖစ္ရာ ေဒသေတြမွာ လူသားခ်င္းစာနာမႈ လုပ္ငန္းေတြအတြက္ သြားခြင့္ျပဳခဲ့တာ၊ အမ်ဳိးသား လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ေကာ္မရွင္ တရပ္ကုိ ဖဲြ႔စည္းခဲ့တာေတြလုိ တျခား အေရးႀကီးတဲ့ ေျခလွမ္းေတြကုိလည္း လွမ္းခဲ့တာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့ ဒီဇင္ဘာလတုန္းက ေျပာခဲ့သလုိပါပဲ၊ အေမရိကန္ ျပည္ေထာင္စု အေနနဲ႔ လက္ေတြ႔ လုပ္ေဆာင္ခ်က္ေတြကုိ လုပ္ရပ္ေတြနဲ႔ ျပန္လည္ တုန္႔ျပန္သြားမွာပါ။ အခုအခ်ိန္အထိ ေဆာင္ရြက္ၿပီးျဖစ္တဲ့ ကိစၥေတြအေပၚမွာ က်မတုိ႔ စတင္တုန္႔ျပန္သြားပါမယ္။ လႊတ္ေတာ္ ကုိယ္စားလွယ္ေတြနဲ႔ တုိင္ပင္ေဆြးေႏြးၿပီး သမၼတ အုိဘားမားရဲ႔ ညႊန္ၾကားခ်က္နဲ႔ သံအမတ္ႀကီးေတြ အျပန္အလွန္ ခန္႔ထားတဲ့ လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ကုိ စတင္သြားမွာပါ။ အစုိးရနဲ႔သာမက ျမန္မာျပည္သူေတြနဲ႔ပါ ဆက္ဆံေရးေတြ ခုိင္မာနက္႐ႈိင္းလာေစဖုိ႔ ႀကိဳးပမ္းေနတာေတြကုိ တုိးျမႇင့္သြားဖုိ႔အတြက္ အေမရိကန္ အစုိးရကုိ ကုိယ္စားျပဳတဲ့ သံအမတ္ႀကီး တဦးအျဖစ္ တာ၀န္ယူမယ့္သူ တဦးကုိလည္း က်မတုိ႔ ေရြးခ်ယ္ပါမယ္။ တုိးတက္မႈေတြနဲ႔ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲမႈေတြအေပၚ မူတည္ေနတာ ျဖစ္တဲ့အတုိင္း ဒါဟာလည္း တကယ့္ကုိ ရွည္လ်ားတဲ့ လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္တရပ္ပါ။

ဒါေပမဲ့လည္း အေမရိကန္ သံအမတ္ႀကီးတဦး အေနနဲ႔ သမုိင္းတြင္ေလာက္တဲ့ အားရစရာ အေျခအေနေတြ ထြက္ေပၚလာတဲ့အေပၚ အားေပးေထာက္ခံတဲ့ က်မတုိ႔ရဲ႔ ႀကိဳးပမ္းမႈေတြကုိ ခုိင္မာေအာင္ ေဆာင္ရြက္သြားမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ေပၚထြန္းလာေနတဲ့ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲမႈေတြကုိ ပ့ံပုိးသြားဖုိ႔ က်မတုိ႔ရဲ႔ မိတ္ေဆြေတြ၊ မဟာမိတ္ေတြနဲ႔အတူ အေမရိကန္ ျပည္ေထာင္စုက ေနာက္ထပ္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ႏုိင္တာ ဘာေတြ ရွိဦးမလဲ ဆုိတာကုိ ရွာေဖြသြားဖုိ႔ အတြက္လည္း ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီးဌာနကုိ က်မညႊန္ၾကားထားပါတယ္။ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရး လမ္းေၾကာင္းေပၚကုိ အတူတကြ ေလွ်ာက္လွမ္းၾကဖုိ႔ က်မတုိ႔အေနနဲ႔ သံဓိ႒ာန္ခ်မွတ္တားတယ္ ဆုိတာကုိ အေလးထားေျပာဆုိႏုိင္ဖုိ႔ ဒီသီတင္းပတ္ကုန္မွာ သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္နဲ႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ တုိ႔ကုိ တယ္လီဖုန္းကေန ေျပာဆုိသြားဖုိ႔လည္း က်မရည္ရြယ္ထားပါတယ္။"


Remarks on Burma by Secretary of State (Hillary Rodham Clinton)
Friday, January 13, 2012 Rohingya Blogger 1 comment

Remarks

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Secretary of State

Treaty Room

Washington, DC

January 13, 2012

Good morning. When I visited Burma in December on behalf of President Obama and the United States, I encouraged authorities to continue along the path of reform. In particular, I urged them to unconditionally release all political prisoners, halt hostilities in ethnic areas, and seek a true political settlement. This would broaden the space for political and civic activity, and by doing so, it would lay the groundwork to fully implement legislation that would protect universal freedoms of assembly, speech, and association. I also urged that they sever all illicit military ties with North Korea.

Since then, we have seen progress on several fronts. Today, I join President Obama in welcoming the news that the government has released hundreds of political prisoners, several of whom have languished in prison for decades. This is a substantial and serious step forward in the government’s stated commitment to political reform, and I applaud it, and the entire international community should as well. Aung San Suu Kyi has welcomed these dramatic steps as further indication of progress and commitment.

Many of the people released today have distinguished themselves as steadfast, courageous leaders in the fight for democracy and human rights at critical times in their country’s recent history. And like all of the people of their country, they want and deserve to have a voice in the decisions that affect their lives.

I also warmly welcome news of a ceasefire agreement between the government and the Karen National Union. The KNU has been involved in one of the longest-running insurgencies anywhere in the world, and entering a ceasefire agreement that begins to address the longstanding grievances of the Karen people is an important step forward. It is in that spirit that I urge the government to enter into meaningful dialogue with all ethnic groups to achieve national reconciliation, to allow news media and humanitarian groups access to ethnic areas.

In addition to the ceasefire and the release of political prisoners, the civilian leadership has taken other important steps since assuming power in April 2011, including easing restrictions on media and civil society; engaging Aung San Suu Kyi in a substantive dialogue and amending electoral laws to pave the way for the National League for Democracy to participate in the political process; setting a date for the by-elections this year; passing new legislation to protect the right of assembly and the rights of workers; beginning to provide humanitarian access for the United Nations and NGOs to conflict areas; and establishing their own national Human Rights Commission.

As I said last December, the United States will meet action with action. Based on the steps taken so far, we will now begin. In consultation with members of Congress and at the direction of President Obama, we will start the process of exchanging ambassadors with Burma. We will identify a candidate to serve as U.S. Ambassador to represent the United States Government and our broader efforts to strengthen and deepen our ties with both the people and the government.

This is a lengthy process, and it will, of course, depend on continuing progress and reform. But an American Ambassador will help strengthen our efforts to support the historic and promising steps that are now unfolding. I have also instructed my team at the State Department to identify further steps that the United States can take in conjunction with our friends and allies to support the reforms underway. And I intend to call President Thein Sein and Aung San Suu Kyi this weekend to underscore our commitment to walk together with them on the path of reform.

Of course, there is more work to be done, and we will continue to work with the government on their reform and reconciliation efforts, including taking further steps to address the concerns of ethnic minority groups, making sure that there is a free and fair by-election, and making all the releases from prison unconditional, and making sure that all remaining political detainees are also released.

But this is a momentous day for the diverse people of Burma, and we will continue to support them and their efforts and to encourage the government to take bold steps that build the kind of free and prosperous nation, that I heard from everyone I met with, they desire to see. We believe that that future is achievable, and we look forward to being a partner and a friend as we see the progress continue. Thank you.

Credit : State dept , US