Security Council Has First-Ever Discussion of Situation in Burma

 
Just check this-from the Burma Campaign UK:
Dec 2005

The first-ever discussion on Burma came almost three months after the release of a report commissioned by Havel and Tutu calling for the UN Security Council to act. The 125-page report, prepared by global law firm DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, compared the situation in Burma to other countries in which the Security Council has previously intervened in internal conflicts because of the transnational issues implicated.(...)

The debate was held after the United States and Romania spearheaded an international effort to organize 9 votes (out of 15 total) required under UN rules to place the situation of Burma on the Security Council’s agenda.

Both President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice used their recent trip to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in South Korea to press for action. Aung San Suu Kyi’s political party, the National League for Democracy, publicly called for UN Security Council action as did the leadership of Burma’s ethnic nationalities. Numerous newspapers, including the Washington Post, Boston Globe, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun, The Nation (Bangkok), Washington Times, Christian Science Monitor, and The Times (London) offered editorial support for the Havel-Tutu Report.After 10 countries agreed to call for a debate, China and Russia, who had previously blocked a discussion, agreed to support by consensus a “consultation of the whole” in which the Secretary General’s office will brief the Council on its efforts in Burma.(...)The debate represents a breakthrough on Burma at the UN Security Council as it had been widely presumed that China and Russia would use their threat of a veto on a substantive resolution to prevent a discussion from even taking place. Instead, the Security Council signaled by consensus that after 28 total resolutions passed by the UN General Assembly and UN Commission on Human Rights, all of which have been summarily ignored by the ruling military regime, it was time for the Security Council to hold the debate. The refusal of Burma’s military regime to work with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and its recent extension of Aung San Suu Kyi’s house arrest for another six months may have also played a role.

Well, i think this makes me very proud of being Romanian You know, from the first moment I sent those petitions from the Romanian Initiative for Burma and the Youth's parliament in the Second District of Bucharest (of which I'm also a member) to our Foreign Affairs Minister and representative at the UNSC, Mr. Razvan Ungureanu, I knew it won't be for nothing, but this is even so much better than I expected!!!!!!!

It worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, a huge THANK YOU to you for all of your great advices and encouragement!!!!!!!!

Have a great day and please wish me good luck from now on, 'cause more than ever I'm sure I'll need it.

Best regards, Raluca Enescu - Romanian Initiative for Burma.