一个欧盟代表团预定星期二在仰光与缅甸民主活动人士昂山素季会面。欧盟外交政策主管凯瑟琳.阿什顿的特别顾问罗伯特.库珀率领的这个代表团星期一在行政首都内比都与缅甸外长旺纳孟伦等官员会面。
代表团在前往缅甸前说，希望看到缅甸新政府是否认真看待政治改革。长期执政的军政府在3月底将权利交给一个主要由其支持者组成的新政府。欧盟代表团在仰光还将与昂山素季领导的最大反对党派全国民主联盟的成员会面。该党发言人对缅甸流亡报纸《伊洛瓦底》说，全国民主联盟要跟欧盟介绍政府部队与缅甸北部少数民族武装新近爆发的战斗。
A European Union delegation was expected Tuesday in Rangoon for talks with Burmese democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi. The delegation is led by Robert Cooper, a special adviser to EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton. The delegation was in the administrative capital of Naypyitaw Monday to meet with Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin and other top officials.
Before traveling to Burma, the delegates said they wanted to see whether the country’s new government is serious about democratic reform. A long-ruling junta handed over power at the end of March to a new administration made up mostly of its own supporters. In Rangoon, the delegation is also expected to meet members of the National League for Democracy, the influential opposition party led by Aung San Suu Kyi. A party spokesman told the Burmese exile newspaper The Irrawaddy that the party wanted to speak to the Europeans about new fighting between government forces and ethnic-based armies in the north of the country.