Open letter to Gen than shwe SSS.

OPEN LETTER

May 15, 2007

Senior General Than Shwe
Naypyidaw
Burma

Dear Senior General Than Shwe:

We are writing this public letter to call for the immediate release of the
world's only imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. Her
most recent term of house arrest is scheduled to end on May 27, 2007.

On January 8, 2007, new United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
called on you to release Aung San Suu Kyi. May 27, 2007 affords an
excellent opportunity to respond to his request.

Indeed, the UN General Assembly, former UN Commission on Human Rights,
ASEAN, European Union, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Japan,
and many other countries have all called for Aung San Suu Kyi's immediate
release.

The 2006 UN General Assembly resolution on Burma, which passed
overwhelmingly, expressed "grave concern" at "the extension of the house
arrest of the General Secretary of the National League for Democracy, Aung
San Suu Kyi" and strongly called upon your government to "to release all
political prisoners immediately and unconditionally, including National
League for Democracy leaders Aung San Suu Kyi and U Tin Oo."

Aung San Suu Kyi is not calling for revolution in Burma, but rather
peaceful, nonviolent dialogue between the military, National League for
Democracy, and Burma's ethnic groups. The UN General Assembly resolution,
and 15 previous resolutions also support this approach.

We strongly urge you to respond to the United Nations and countless other
countries and regional groupings around the world by releasing Aung San
Suu Kyi before May 27th and committing to participate in peaceful,
tripartite dialogue as outlined by the General Assembly.

Sincerely,

1. The Honorable Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín
Former President of Argentina (1983-1989)

2. The Honorable Marí Bin Amude Alkatiri
Former Prime Minister of East Timor (2002-2006)

3. The Honorable Sadiq Al-Mahdi
Former Prime Minister of Sudan (1966-1967, 1989-1989)

4. The Honorable Halldór Ásgrímsson
Former Prime Minister of Iceland (2004-2006)

5. The Honorable Corazon C. Aquino
Former President of the Philippines (1986-1992)


6. The Honorable Benazir Bhutto
Former Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988-1990)

7. The Honorable Kjell Magne Bondevik
Former Prime Minister of Norway (1997-2000, 2001-2005)

8. The Honorable Gro Harlem Brundtland
Former Prime Minister of Norway (1981, 1986-1989, 1990-1996)

9. The Honorable George H.W. Bush
Former President of the United States of America (1989-1993)

10. The Honorable Jerzy Buzek
Former Prime Minister of Poland (1997-2001)

11. The Right Honourable Kim Campbell
Former Prime Minister of Canada (1993)

12. The Honorable Jimmy Carter
Former President of the United States of America (1977-1981)

13. The Honorable Joaquim Alberto Chissano
Former President of Mozambique (1986-2005)

14. The Honorable William J. Clinton
Former President of the United States of America (1993-2001)

15. The Honorable Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Former President of Brazil (1995-2003)

16. The Honorable Chuan Leekpai
Former Prime Minister of Thailand (1992-1995, 1997-2001)

17. The Honorable Jacques Delors
Former President of the European Commission (1985-1995)

18. The Honorable Philip Dimitrov
Former Prime Minister of Bulgaria (1991-1992)

19. The Honorable Elbegdorj Tsakhiagiin
Former Prime Minister of Mongolia (1998, 2004-2006)

20. The Honorable José María Figueres
Former President of Costa Rica (1994-1998)

21. The Honorable Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
Former President of Iceland (1980-1996)

22. The Honorable César Augusto Gaviria Trujillo
Former President of Colombia (1990-1994)
Former Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (1994-2004)
23. The Honorable Luis Alberto Lacalle Herrera
Former President of Uruguay (1990-1995)

24. The Honorable Václav Havel
Former President of the Czech Republic (1990-2003)

25. The Honorable Thorbjørn Jagland
Former Prime Minister of Norway (1996-1997)

26. The Honorable Lionel Jospin
Former Prime Minister of France (1997-2002)

27. The Honorable Kim Dae-jung
Former President of South Korea (1998-2003)

28. The Honorable Junichiro Koizumi
Former Prime Minister of Japan (2001-2006)

29. The Honorable Aleksander Kwaśniewski
Former President of Poland (1995-2005)

30. The Honorable Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar
Former President of Chile (2000-2006)

31. The Honorable Árpád Göncz
Former President of Hungary (1990-2000)

32. The Honorable Kenneth Kaunda
Former President of Zambia (1974-1991)

33. The Honorable Lee Hong-Koo
Former Prime Minister of South Korea (1994-1995)

34. The Honorable Paavo Lipponen
Former Prime Minister of Finland (1995-2003)

35. The Honorable Mahathir Mohamed
Former Prime Minister of Malaysia (1981-2003)

36. The Right Honourable Sir John Major, KG CH PC
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland (1990-1997)

37. The Honorable Megawati Sukarnoputri
Former President of Indonesia (2001-2004)

38. The Honorable Rexhep Meidani
Former President of the Republic of Albania (1997-2002)

39. The Honorable Benjamin William Mkapa
Former President of Tanzania (1995-2005)

40. The Right Honourable Martin Brian Mulroney
Former Prime Minister of Canada (1984-1993)

41. The Honorable Davíð Oddsson
Former Prime Minister of Iceland (1991-2004)

42. The Honorable Andrés Pastrana Arango
Former President of Colombia (1998-2002)

43. The Honorable Göran Persson
Former Prime Minister of Sweden (1996-2006)

44. The Honorable Fidel V. Ramos
Former President of the Philippines (1992-1998)

45. The Honorable Poul Nyrup Rasmussen
Former Prime Minister of Denmark (1993-2001)

46. The Honorable Mary Robinson
Former President of Ireland (1990-1997)

47. The Honorable Eduardo Rodríguez Veltzé
Former President of the Republic of Bolivia (2005-2006)

48. The Honorable Petre Roman
Former Prime Minister of Romania (1989-1991)

49. The Honorable Amos Claudius Sawyer
Former President of Liberia (1990-1994)

50. The Honorable Chandra Shekhar
Former Prime Minister of India (1990-1991)

51. The Honorable Vishwanath Pratap Singh
Former Prime Minister of India (1989-1990)

52. The Honorable Mário Soares
Former President of Portugal (1986-1996)
Former Prime Minister of Portugal (1976-1978, 1983-1985)

53. The Right Honourable Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland (1979-1990)

54. The Honorable Alejandro Toledo
Former President of Peru (2001-2006)

55. The Honorable Jorge Quiroga
Former President of Bolivia (2001-2002)

56. The Honorable Ung Huot
Former Prime Minister of Cambodia (1997-1998)
57. The Honorable Casam Uteem
Former President of the Republic of Mauritius (1992-2002)

58. The Honorable Abdurrahman Wahid
Former President of Indonesia (1991-2001)

59. The Honorable Lech Wałęsa
Former President of Poland (1990-1995)

cc: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Members of the UN Security Council

U Aung Shwe, Chairman, National League for Democracy


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