CNA - 10 November 2009 0749 hrs
WASHINGTON: The United States said on Monday it would no longer
allow its row with Myanmar to hold its ties with Southeast Asia
hostage, as President Barack Obama geared up for his debut official
visit to the region.
Obama is due to hold the first-ever meeting between a US president
and leaders of all 10 Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
members, including Myanmar Prime Minister Thein Sein, on Sunday in
Singapore.
"One of the frustrations that we've had with policy toward Burma
over recent years has been that the inability to have interaction with
Burma has prevented certain kinds of interaction with ASEAN as a
whole," said Obama's top Asia policy aide Jeffrey Bader.
"The statement we're trying to make here is that we're not going to let the Burmese tail wag the ASEAN dog."
Bader said the meeting was a multilateral session, and not intended
to serve as an opportunity for Obama to have a conversation with a
Myanmar leader – though he did not categorically rule out such an
encounter.
"We're going to meet with all 10 and we're not going to punish the
other nine simply because Burma is in the room, but this is not a
bilateral."
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This is a repulsive and insulting remark that ASEAN is a dog!
it is a figure of speech...
don't get your panties in a knot...
besides, ASEAN has let Burma treat it like a dog so far, allowing a horrific junta crack down peaceful demonstrations with lots of bloodshed... and not doing a goddamned thing about it..
it may be politics but it doesn't make it stink any less...
btw.. politics... comes from poly = many and ticks = bloodsucking bugs
Still, you would expect the top Asia policy aide to exercise a little more tact in his figure of speech.
And his foreign experience seem to only involve China and he did not seemed to have worked in SE Asia. Kinda disturbing.
The way Burmese are doing thing out of the spec of Asean, what is Asean? A dog..a dog to the burmese to manipulate their causes and contact with the outside world. Asean should therefore...WAKE UP!
ASEAN is crap la...
Still a bad choice of figure of speech.
Originally posted by Chew Bakar:CNA - 10 November 2009 0749 hrs
WASHINGTON: The United States said on Monday it would no longer allow its row with Myanmar to hold its ties with Southeast Asia hostage, as President Barack Obama geared up for his debut official visit to the region.
Obama is due to hold the first-ever meeting between a US president and leaders of all 10 Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) members, including Myanmar Prime Minister Thein Sein, on Sunday in Singapore.
"One of the frustrations that we've had with policy toward Burma over recent years has been that the inability to have interaction with Burma has prevented certain kinds of interaction with ASEAN as a whole," said Obama's top Asia policy aide Jeffrey Bader.
"The statement we're trying to make here is that we're not going to let the Burmese tail wag the ASEAN dog."
Bader said the meeting was a multilateral session, and not intended to serve as an opportunity for Obama to have a conversation with a Myanmar leader – though he did not categorically rule out such an encounter.
"We're going to meet with all 10 and we're not going to punish the other nine simply because Burma is in the room, but this is not a bilateral."---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This is a repulsive and insulting remark that ASEAN is a dog!
My friends' friend is an idiot but my friends' friend's friend is a bigger issued.
But Asean really has become just a talk shop...it could not solved Myanmar, it probably cannot resolved Thai - Cambo issued either.