We work closely with the Royal Thai Government and other stakeholders to ensure a better future for the Burmese people. As a neighbour and influential member of ASEAN, Thailand has an important role to play in Burma's journey to a democratic state.

Working with Thailand

• UK supports Thai stance on Burma, August 13, 2009
  The United Kingdom supports Thailand’s call for the Burmese junta to release all political prisoners from detention, British Ambassador to Thailand Quinton Quayle said after a meeting with Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Thursday

British Embassy staff visit a Burmese refugee camp on the Thai/Burma Border 

• Remembering Burma’s political prisoners, August 8, 2009, The Nation Newspaper

Burma stories

• Human rights in Burma
  Burma remains one of the poorest countries in the world, and faces a range of humanitarian challenges which are compounded by the absence of fundamental rights, and continued lack of progress towards democracy.
  
• UK Ambassador meets Aung San Suu Kyi
  Andy Heyn met Suu Kyi with Australian and US colleagues earlier today as EU representative. He delivered a personal message of support from the Prime Minister. Heyn is the first UK Ambassador to mee Suu Kyi since 2003.
  
• Miliband hopes for start of political reconciliation
  Foreign Secretary has called the visit a small but welcome development but insist that UK Government stance on Burma remains clear.
  
• Ivan Lewis on BBC’s Today Programme, August 11, 2009 [Read the script, PDF, 14.8KB, new window]
  UK Foreign Office Minister Ivan Lewis, commenting on the outcome of Aung San Suu Kyi’s trial during an interview with BBC Radio 4, said ‘this is a dark day for the people of Burma and friends of Burma throughout the world’. 
  
• Verdict against Suu Kyi angers Gordon Brown, August 11, 2009
  London, Aug 11 (IANS) British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he is angered by the sentence of 18 months’ house arrest passed against Myanmar opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi by the country’s military rulers Tuesday.
  
• Myanmar: Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s new sentence “shameful”
  Today’s guilty verdict against Daw Aung San Suu Kyi by a court in Myanmar has been described by Amnesty International’s Secretary General Irene Khan as “shameful”.
  
• No Country to Call Their Own, August 2009
  Stateless Burmese children in Thailand are still being denied basic rights such as access to education and health services, and they are vulnerable to many kinds of exploitation and abuse, according to migrant rights advocates.
  
• Burma News: Burma VJ Movie
  
  

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 Regional

• Failure to agree on Suu Kyi will haunt, undermine Asean, August 27, 2009
  A move to seek a pardon from Burma’s military junta for opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has gone nowhere after senior Asean officials failed to get a consensus for the plan at a meeting in Jakarta last week, published on August 27, 2009
  
• ASEAN Chairman’s Statement on Myanmar, August 11, 2009, Bangkok [PDF, 12.1KB]