EU Governments Condemn Burma Coup
BRUSSELS European Union governments condemned the military’s seizure of power in Burma on Monday and demanded the immediate release of people arrested in raids across the country.
Aung San Suu Kyi attends an award ceremony to receive her 1990 Sakharov Prize at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, on Oct. 22, 2013. (Vincent Kessler/Reuters)
From tiny Luxembourg to European powers France and Germany, leaders and foreign ministers reacted swiftly in statements and on Twitter to criticize the coup, expressing grave concern but avoiding any details of a possible response.
“We call for the immediate release of all those detained and to reestablish the democratic process,” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said.
A court in Guinea sentenced an opposition activist to 11 months in prison on Thursday, in the latest instance of a critic of President Alpha Conde receiving a jail term.
The decision comes after Conde, 82, won a third presidential term in the poor West African nation in a violently disputed election on October 18.
He ran after pushing through a new constitution last March which allowed him to sidestep the country’s two-term limit, provoking mass protests.
Dozens of people were killed during demonstrations, often in clashes with security forces. Hundreds were also arrested.
On Thursday, a court in the capital Conakry sentenced Oumar Sylla, a member of the opposition coalition FNDC, to 11 months in prison for inciting an “armed gathering”.
| UPDATED: 10:22, Mon, Jan 25, 2021
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By Fayçal Benhassain | January 20, 2021 | 5:04pm EST
Then Vice President Joe Biden with French President Francois Hollande in Paris in 2013. (Photo by Martin Bureau/AFP via Getty Images)
Paris (CNSNews.com) – French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian is calling for a moratorium on the long trade dispute between the European Union and the United States, following the previous administration’s recently announced new tariffs on aircraft manufacturing parts and certain alcoholic beverages.
“The increase of taxes on steel, digital technology and more particularly our wine sector, poisons our relations with the U.S.,” Le Drian told the weekly
Journal du Dimanche early this week.