Re: Burma urges UN aid fund to stay

United Nations to stop funding Myanmar on health project or any kind of
humanatarian aid is wrong.

Burma to make difficulties for aid organizations to do their work is
wrong.

Staff from aid organizations including UN agencies to spy for US or UK
could be wrong.

What could be happening in Burma is, there are civillian staff and
military personnel in every ministary. There is always a quiet clash
between them. All the best posts are given to the people from military
or who have connection with the military. Civilian staff are always in
the third place.

Frankly speaking, - Ma lote - Ma shok - Ma Pyote is the motto of the
all Burmese. (DOING NOTHING WILL MAKE NOTHING COMPLICATED WHICH WILL
SECURE YOUR JOB) Nobody is taking any responsibility, everybody is
playing the volley ball game, passing the responsibility on other
people shoulder. Nothing enough is being done. If the minister and
deputy minister on tour nothing in the ministry could be done. In
another word Burmese become inefficient, they are becoming the stooges.

Like it or not, that hinders the works of the aid organizations and
those who are asigned to do a task. Also in another word that seemed to
be none co operative by the Burmese which in evitably means
noncooperation by the SPDC, because SPDC is the government in Burma at
the moment.

Self realization or anylising one to oneself is the best way rather
then putting the blames on others as if one is so purfect and innocent.

Honourable projects should be done by the honourable people.


Mogyothwar.



saya_oo@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Last Updated: Tuesday, 23 August 2005, 08:47 GMT 09:47 UK
>
>
> Burma urges UN aid fund to stay
>
> Some 600,000 people in Burma are thought to have HIV or Aids
> Burma has asked a UN-led group to reconsider its decision to stop
> funding health projects in the country.
> The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria said last week
> that it would withdraw funding because of obstructions to its
> activities.
>
> A spokeswoman for the organisation said on Friday that aid workers were
> unable to carry out their work properly.
>
> But in a statement, Burmese officials rejected the claims and said the
> withdrawal would affect those in need.
>
> Burma's Country Co-ordinating Mechanism, which is chaired by the health
> minister, said that it "strongly deplores the negative impact" the move
> will have.
>
> In a statement published in the New Light of Myanmar newspaper on
> Tuesday, it said the restrictions on aid workers were only temporary,
> and "do not justify irreversible termination of grants".
>
> "The Global Fund's response is clearly disproportionate," it is quoted
> as saying by the Associated Press.
>
> Last year the Global Fund agreed to spend $100m over five years
> combating disease in Burma.
>
> Regrettable decision
>
> This is the first time the Geneva-based Global Fund has withdrawn from
> a country in which it is operating.
>
> It said its decision was regrettable, given the serious epidemics
> threatening the impoverished Burmese population.
>
> According to UNAids, an estimated 600,000 people in Burma have HIV or
> Aids, and the country is thought to have one of the highest rates of
> tuberculosis in the world.
>
> But spokeswoman Rosie Vanek told the Associated Press on Friday that it
> was the organisation's "basic principle" to ensure that the money it
> was given was well spent, and that travel restrictions on aid workers
> in Burma made it difficult to carry out its work properly.
>
> "The Global Fund has now concluded that the grants cannot be
> implemented in a way that ensures effective programme implementation,"
> she said.
>
> All the group's activities in Burma are set to cease by 1 December.
>
> The Global Fund - an independent organisation of governments and
> private groups set up by the UN - works in more than 100 countries,
> trying to combat deaths from Aids, tuberculosis and malaria.

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