Written Answers. - Safety of Nobel Peace Prize Winner. Thursday, 7 November 1991

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  32.  Mr. M. Higgins      asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs      the action the Irish Government have taken to ascertain the safety of the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi.

Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Collins):    The Government condemns the continued house arrest of the Burmese opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Mrs Aung San Suu Kyi.

We deplore the fact that all access to the outside world is denied her, including contact with her supporters and with the media, and that all requests by foreign visitors and by European Community representatives in Rangoon to be allowed to see her have been refused by the military regime. Against this background, Deputies will appreciate that it is extremely difficult, including even for those countries represented in Rangoon, to ascertain the conditions under which she is being held.

I believe that continued and concerted international pressure on the Burmese military is the best means at our disposal to secure the release of Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi and other political prisoners.

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