歐盟代表團仰光將會見昂山素季
A European Union delegation was expected Tuesday in Rangoon for talks with Burmese democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi. The delegation is led by Robert Cooper, a special adviser to EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton. The delegation was in the administrative capital of Naypyitaw Monday to meet with Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin and other top officials.
Before traveling to Burma, the delegates said they wanted to see whether the country's new government is serious about democratic reform. A long-ruling junta handed over power at the end of March to a new administration made up mostly of its own supporters. In Rangoon, the delegation is also expected to meet members of the National League for Democracy, the influential opposition party led by Aung San Suu Kyi. A party spokesman told the Burmese exile newspaper The Irrawaddy that the party wanted to speak to the Europeans about new fighting between government forces and ethnic-based armies in the north of the country.一個歐盟代表團預定星期二在仰光與緬甸民主活動人士昂山素季會面。歐盟外交政策主管凱瑟琳.阿什頓的特別顧問羅伯特.庫珀率領的這個代表團星期一在行政首都內比都與緬甸外長旺納孟倫等官員會面。
代表團在前往緬甸前說，希望看到緬甸新政府是否認真看待政治改革。長期執政的軍政府在3月底將權利交給一個主要由其支持者組成的新政府。歐盟代表團在仰光還將與昂山素季領導的最大反對黨派全國民主聯盟的成員會面。該黨發言人對緬甸流亡報紙《伊洛瓦底》說，全國民主聯盟要跟歐盟介紹政府部隊與緬甸北部少數民族武裝新近爆發的戰鬥。
