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Thursday 20 October 2011

RI to assess development in Myanmar

Along with the government, the House of Representatives will assess the latest developments in Myanmar before deciding on whether to accept Myanmar’s bid for the chairmanship of ASEAN at the Bali Summit next month.

Deputy Chairman of the House’s Commission I on foreign affairs, TB Hasanuddin, said that his commission had set a meeting with the Foreign Minister, Marty Natalegawa, in order to assess the situation in Myanmar, including the progress that the country had made in terms of democratization.

He said that the commission and the Foreign Ministry had both received the required input to conduct an assessment, and that Indonesia was expected to take the wise diplomatic step of encouraging the Myanmarese government to make further progress at home.

“We will assess whether it is the right time to rely on Myanmar to chair ASEAN, or we will leave Myanmar in isolation. But leaving Myanmar in isolation could be counterproductive for ASEAN and its regional interests,” he said.

Hasanuddin, also a legislator of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, said that the commission had already received inputs and recommendations from the ASEAN Interparliamentary Myanmar Caucus (AIPMC) and the Burma Partnership, which represents Myanmarese civil society.

“What Indonesia will bring to the summit will bring benefit to both Myanmar and ASEAN,” he added.

The ASEAN Summit, scheduled for Nov. 17 and preceeded by a series of ASEAN ministerial meetings, has on its main agenda the discussion of economic, defense and political issues across the Southeast Asian region, including the approval of Myanmar’s ASEAN chairmanship in 2014.

The AIPMC and the Burma Partnership called on Indonesia to suspend the approval of Myanmar’s ASEAN chairmanship bid during the summit until the Myanmarese government makes significant progress towards democratization.

Burma Partnership coordinator, Khin Ohmar, said that despite the recent general election, which formed President Thien Sein’s government and saw the release of 220 political prisoners, democracy in Myanmar had yet to be upheld.

She said that the way the recent general election was conducted did not reflect a democratic process, with power vested not in the president but in the eleven-member National Defense and Security Council that was closely controlled by former military junta leaders.

The Myanmarese government should also release the remaining 1,800 political prisoners (not 18,000 as it was reported on Wednesday), and stop the atrocities against minority ethnic groups, including the Katchin and the Karen, to show a strong commitment to democracy and human rights, she said.

Effendy Choirie, a commission member, said that Indonesia should maintain its neutrality in dealing with the Myanmar issue, but that it could enhance lobbying with other ASEAN member countries to encourage the Myanmar president to develop a democratic government.
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'Zero tolerance' on aid corruption
The Government has zero tolerance of corruption and has put much stronger systems in place to ensure aid money is not lost to fraud, the International Development Secretary has said.
Andrew Mitchell spoke out after an influential committee of MPs warned that the amount of British aid lost to fraud and corruption could rise because of changes to how the money is targeted.
The Department for International Development (DfID), whose budget is rising despite massive cuts across Whitehall, is refocusing overseas aid on countries seen as fragile and in conflict, such as Somalia, Burma and Pakistan.
But the cross-party Public Accounts Committee (PAC) cautioned that "operating in high-risk environments means the potential for increased risk of leakage through fraud and corruption".
It said in a report: "The department intends to focus more on fragile and conflict-affected states which pose higher risks in terms of poor security, delivery capacity, measurement of costs and outcomes, and leakage of funds through fraud and corruption."
Mr Mitchell told the BBC that it would not be right to say that the Government had taken its eye off the ball. He said: "They are looking at the legacy from the last government. We have much stronger systems to ensure that this money is well spent."
He added: "Wherever we find money being stolen, if ever we find money being stolen, we are absolutely ruthless on the taxpayers' behalf, in stopping it and not allowing it to happen. This Government has a zero tolerance of corruption."
The PAC warned that increasing spending via multilateral organisations - such as the European Commission and the World Bank - may also mean more British money is lost to fraud and corruption.
"The department plans to increase the proportion of its funding spent via multilaterals but does not have the same visibility over the cost and performance of multilaterals' programmes as it does over its bilateral programmes," the PAC said.
"Furthermore, the strategy to increase DfID spend through multilateral programmes appears to have more to do with it being easier for DfID to do this than for it to assess the viability, effectiveness and value for money of bilateral programme proposals."

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Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) Paying Homage to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi & Leaders

Burmese Leaders' Views on Current Situation of Burma 16 Oct 2011

Ko Myo Yan Naung Thein (88-Generation Students Leader), Ko Phyo Min Thein (88-Generation Students Leader) and Ko Soe Htun (88-Generation Students Leader) discussed on RFA/Burmese on 16 October 2011 discussed regarding on current situation of Burma, on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's leadership and on National League for Democracy (NLD). They also discussed their views on China's influence on Burma, Irrawaddi dams and National Reconciliation in Burma.


ဝန္ႀကီးမ်ား႐ံုး ဟိုတယ္လုပ္ရန္ ဦးခင္ေရႊ ကမ္းလွမ္း


နယူးေဒလီ (မဇၥ်ိမ) ထြန္းထြန္း | ဗုဒၶဟူးေန႔၊ ေအာက္တုိဘာလ ၁၉ ရက္ ၂၀၁၁ ခုႏွစ္ ၂၀ နာရီ ၂၆ မိနစ္


ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္း အပါအဝင္ အာဇာနည္ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ႀကီးမ်ား လုပ္ႀကံခံခဲ့ရသည့္
ႏွစ္ေပါင္း ၁၂၀ သက္တမ္းရွိ ဝန္ႀကီးမ်ား႐ံုး အေဆာက္အအံုကို ဟုိတယ္လုပ္ငန္းလုပ္ကိုင္ခ်င္သူမ်ား ရွိပါက ကူညီေပးသြားမည္ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ျမန္မာ့ခရီးသြားလုပ္ငန္း ဘုတ္အဖြဲ႔ MTB ဥကၠ႒ ဦးခင္ေရႊက ေျပာဆုိသည္။

ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ ေက်ာက္တံတားၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ဗိုလ္ေအာင္ေက်ာ္လမ္းရွိ ႐ံုးမွာ အဂၤလိပ္တို႔က အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရး ဗဟိုဌာနအျဖစ္ ၁၈၉၀ ျပည့္ႏွစ္က ေဆာက္လုပ္ခဲ့ျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။ အဂၤလိပ္ေခတ္ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရး ယႏၲရား၏ အျမင့္ဆံုးျဖစ္ၿပီး အတြင္း ဝန္ခ်ဳပ္ႏွင့္ အတြင္းဝန္မ်ား ႐ံုးစိုက္ရာ ေနရာ ျဖစ္သည္။

ႏွစ္ေပါင္း ၁၂၀ သက္တမ္းရွိ ဝန္ႀကီးမ်ား ႐ံုးအေဆာက္အအံုကို ဟုိတယ္ လုပ္ငန္း လုပ္ကိုင္ခ်င္သူမ်ား ရွိပါက ကူညီေပး သြားမည္ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း MTB ဥကၠ႒ ဦးခင္ေရႊက ေျပာ (ဓါတ္ပံု မဇၥ်ိမ)


“လုပ္ဦးမယ္ရယ္လုိ႔ မဟုတ္ေသးဘူး။ Proposal ဝိုင္းတင္ၾက။ အေဆာက္ အဦး အမ်ားႀကီးေပါ့ဗ်ာ။ အမ်ားႀကီးထဲမွာ ဝန္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္႐ံုး
လည္း ပါတာေပါ့ဗ်ာ။ အေဆာက္အဦးေတြ အမ်ားႀကီး ရွိတယ္၊ ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္ပိုင္ အေဆာက္အဦးေတြ။ အဲဒီအမ်ားႀကီးထဲက ကိုယ္ႀကိဳက္တဲ့ေကာင္ကို ဝိုင္းၿပီးေတာ့ ဝိုင္းတင္ ၾက။ ဒါပါပဲ” ဟု MTB ဥကၠ႒ ဦးခင္ေရႊက မဇၥ်ိမကို ေျပာသည္။

ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္အေနျဖင့္ ခရီးသြားလုပ္ငန္း တုိးျမႇင့္ေရး အတြက္ လိုလားမႈရွိေနၿပီး ၂၀၀၉ ခုႏွစ္အထိ ဝန္ႀကီးမ်ား႐ံုးအျဖစ္ အသံုးျပဳခဲ့ေသာ အေဆာက္အအံု ကဲ့သို႔ပင္ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕၊ ဒဂံုၿမိဳ႕နယ္ အလံျပဘုရားလမ္းရွိ စစ္႐ံုးခ်ဳပ္ေနရာ အပါအဝင္ အစိုးရပိုင္အေဆာက္အအံုမ်ားကိုလည္း စိတ္ဝင္စားပါက ကူညီေပးသြားမည္ ျဖစ္သည္ဟု ဆိုသည္။

“ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္ အေနနဲ႔က အခုဟာက ဟုိတယ္ေတြက ရန္ကုန္မွာေတာ္ေတာ္ေလး လိုတယ္ေလ။ လိုေနတဲ့အခါ က်ေတာ့ အျမန္
ျဖည့္ဆည္းဖုိ႔က ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္ အေဆာက္အဦးေတြကို လုပ္ဖို႔ရွိတယ္။ လုပ္ေပးရမယ့္ အပိုင္းမွာမွ အဲဒီ အေဆာက္အဦးေတြ အကုန္ပါတာေပါ့ဗ်ာ” ဟု ဦးခင္ေရႊက ဆုိသည္။

သို႔ေသာ္ MBT အေနျဖင့္ လုပ္ပိုင္ခြင့္ရမည္၊ မရမည္ကိုမူ အာမခံမည္ မဟုတ္ေသာ္လည္း ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္သို႔ တင္ျပရန္ အတြက္သာ ကူညီျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။ လုပ္ကိုင္လိုသူမ်ား အေနျဖင့္ ဟုိတယ္ႏွင့္ ခရီးသြားလုပ္ငန္း ဝန္ႀကီးဌာနမွတဆင့္ ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္သုိ႔ တင္ျပရမည္ ျဖစ္သည္။

“တကယ္လို႔ စိတ္ဝင္စားမယ္ဆိုရင္ Proposal တင္၊ MTB ကေန ဝုိင္းဝန္းေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးမယ္ ဆိုတာပါ။ MTB က ဘာမွ ဆံုးျဖတ္ပိုင္ခြင့္ ရွိတာ မဟုတ္ဘူး။ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္က ေပးမယ္၊ မေပးဘူး ဆုိတာကေတာ့ ဘယ္သူမွ အာမခံလို႔ မရေသးဘူး” ဟု ဦးခင္ေရႊက ဆိုသည္။

သို႔ေသာ္ သမိုင္းဝန္ အတြင္းဝန္႐ံုးကဲ့သို႔ေသာ အေဆာက္အအံုအား ငွားရမ္းမည္ဆုိပါက လႊတ္ေတာ္တြင္း ကန္႔ကြက္ သြားမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲဝင္ ပါတီမ်ားက ေျပာဆိုသည္။

“ေသးသိမ္ေအာင္လုပ္ဖို႔ေတာ့ က်ေနာ္တို႔မွာ ဆႏၵမရွိဘူး။ ေသးသိမ္တဲ့ အျဖစ္မ်ဳိးေရာက္ေအာင္လည္း က်ေနာ္တို႔ မခံလိုဘူးေပါ့ဗ်ာ။ ဒီအတြက္ က်ေနာ္တို႔ ဝိုင္းဝန္းၿပီးေတာ့ ကာကြယ္ဖို႔ ႀကိဳးပမ္းၾကရမွာပဲေလ။ အဲဒီေတာ့ သူတုိ႔မွာ ဘယ္လိုပဲ အုိင္ဒီယာရွိရွိ အဲဒီ အုိင္ဒီယာတက္လာရင္ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔က ေခ်ဖ်က္မွာပဲ” ဟု အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအင္အားစုပါတီ - NDF ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေဆြက မဇၥ်ိမကို ေျပာသည္။

၁၉၃၈ ခုႏွစ္ ဒီဇင္ဘာလ အတြင္းက ကိုလိုနီ ၿဗိတိသွ်အစိုးရကို တကၠသိုလ္ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားက ဆန္႔က်င္ ဆႏၵျပရာ တြင္ ပုလိပ္မ်ားက ႐ိုက္ႏွက္၍ ေက်ာင္းသားေခါင္းေဆာင္ ကိုေအာင္ေက်ာ္ ေသဆံုးခဲ့သည္မွာ အတြင္းဝန္႐ုံးေရွ႕တြင္
ျဖစ္သည္။ ျမန္မာ့လြတ္လပ္ေရးဗိသုကာ ျဖစ္ေသာ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းႏွင့္ သူ၏ကက္ဘိနက္ အဖြဲ႔ဝင္မ်ားကို ၿပိဳင္ဘက္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးသမား ဦးေစာ၏ လက္ပါးေစမ်ားက လုပ္ႀကံသတ္ျဖတ္ခဲ့ေသာ ေနရာလည္းျဖစ္ကာ ပထမဆံုးေသာ လြတ္လပ္ေသာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၏ အလံလႊင့္တင္ေသာ အခမ္းအနားက်င္းပရာလည္း ျဖစ္သည္။

“သမိုင္းေၾကာင္းအရ ထင္ရွားတဲ့ ဒီလို အေဆာက္အအံုမ်ဳိးေတြေတာ့ ေနာင္လာေနာင္သားေပါ့ဗ်ာ။ အစဥ္အဆက္
ေျပာျပ၊ ဆိုျပႏုိင္ေအာင္ေပါ့ေလ။ ဒီအေဆာက္အဦးက ေျပာတဲ့ သမုိင္းေၾကာင္းေတြကို ျပန္ၿပီးေတာ့ ေျပာႏုိင္ဆိုႏုိင္ဖို႔ အတြက္ကေတာ့ ယဥ္ေက်းမႈ ဝန္ႀကီးဌာနအေနနဲ႔ကပဲ ထိန္းသိမ္းေစာင့္ေရွာက္ထား သင့္တယ္” ဟု တိုင္းရင္းသား စည္းလံုးညီညြတ္ေရးပါတီ - တစည ေျပာခြင့္ရ ဦးဟန္ေရႊက ဆိုသည္။

၂၀၁၀ ခုႏွစ္ အေစာပိုင္းက အထည္ခ်ဳပ္၊ စားေသာက္ကုန္၊ အိမ္သံုးကုန္၊ လွ်ပ္စစ္ပစၥည္းႏွင့္ ႐ုပ္ရွင္႐ံု၊ အေဆာက္အဦး မ်ား ပါေသာ ႏုိင္ငံပိုင္လုပ္ငန္း ၁၁၀ ေက်ာ္ကို ပုဂၢလိကပိုင္အျဖစ္ လႊဲေျပာင္းခဲ့ေၾကာင္း ပုဂၢလိကပိုင္ျပဳလုပ္ေရး ေကာ္မရွင္က ထုတ္ျပန္ခဲ့သည္။ ထို႔ျပင္ ၂ဝဝ၉ အတြင္း ႏိုင္ငံပိုင္အေဆာက္အဦး၊ ေျမယာႏွင့္လုပ္ငန္းေပါင္း ၂၆၀ ကို ပုဂၢလိကသို႔ ေရာင္းခ်ခဲ့သည္။
Aid cash lost to fraud 'could rise'
(UKPA) – 8 hours ago
The amount of British aid lost to fraud and corruption could rise because of changes to how the money is targeted, an influential committee of MPs has warned.
The Department for International Development (DfID), whose budget is rising despite massive cuts across Whitehall, is refocusing overseas aid on countries seen as fragile and in conflict, such as Somalia, Burma and Pakistan.
But the cross-party Public Accounts Committee (PAC) cautioned that "operating in high-risk environments means the potential for increased risk of leakage through fraud and corruption".
"The department intends to focus more on fragile and conflict-affected states which pose higher risks in terms of poor security, delivery capacity, measurement of costs and outcomes, and leakage of funds through fraud and corruption," it said in a report.
The PAC also warned that increasing spending via multilateral organisations - such as the European Commission and the World Bank - may also mean more British money is lost to fraud and corruption.
"The department plans to increase the proportion of its funding spent via multilaterals but does not have the same visibility over the cost and performance of multilaterals' programmes as it does over its bilateral programmes," the PAC said.
"Furthermore, the strategy to increase DfID spend through multilateral programmes appears to have more to do with it being easier for DfID to do this than for it to assess the viability, effectiveness and value for money of bilateral programme proposals."
The PAC also criticised DfID's "poor understanding" of the scale and likelihood of aid being lost to fraud.
International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell said the coalition had transformed DfID's financial management and took a "zero-tolerance" approach to fraud.
"Although accurately reflecting the position under Labour, the report appears to take little account of the huge changes the coalition has made since taking office," he said.
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