New Chinese Passports Rile Asian Neighbors .

                      It  is  the   Notice   from   China   to   the   U.S.   that  ,  China   can  not   accept  pushing  the   ASEAN   countries  to   adopt   a  code  of  conduct   to    resolve  the   conflicts  of   the   disputed   islands
in  South   China   Sea  or   East  China  Sea  as  the  regional   issues  .
                 It   tries   to   clear  the   way  for  finding  out  the   solution  in  peaceful  mean  between  China   and  the  neighbouring  countries   which   have  the   relation  of   the  disputed  islands .

Kate Woodsome

November 23, 2012

Whenever a country issues new passports, someone almost always complains about the new design. But China's latest edition of travel logs is drawing formal criticism from countries across Asia.

The passports feature a map of China that includes areas of the South China Sea claimed by other countries, as well as territory claimed by India.

Taiwan's government objected to the passports Friday, following similar protests by the Philippines and Vietnam. Officials at the Indian Embassy in Beijing are protesting in their own way, stamping Chinese visas with a map showing the disputed territory belonging to India, according to The Press Trust of India.

John Blaxland, with the Strategic and Defense Studies Center at Australian National University, called China's move "pretty clever."

"It basically forces everyone who's a claimant of South China Sea elements to acknowledge it by stamping it," he said.

As China's military and economic influence has grown throughout the world, Beijing has become more brazen in its claim to territories believed to be rich with oil and natural gas across the Asia-Pacific.

China’s Foreign Ministry said the “nine-dash” map of the sea printed in the new passports wasn’t targeted at any specific countries.

Blaxland described China’s move as part of a "long game" being played by a new generation of leaders who will steer the country for the next 10 years.

"We've just seen a major transition in China … They can act deliberately and slowly, and slowly get their way. There's really not very much anyone is seriously prepared to do about it," he said.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations discussed the territorial disputes at a summit in Cambodia earlier this week but failed to achieve a united stand on how the 10 member countries should respond to China.

Carl Thayer, a professor emeritus at the University of New South Wales, said the map in China’s new passports may partly be in response to Vietnam’s passage earlier this year of a Law of the Sea. The law asserts Vietnam’s sovereignty over the Spratly and Paracel islands, which are claimed by both Hanoi and Beijing.

“It's just finding one more way of turning the screw that China has jurisdiction,” Thayer said.

Although Vietnam, Taiwan and the Philippines have been most vocal in their opposition to China’s moves, Brunei and Malaysia also have rival claims in the South China Sea, and Japan is embroiled in its own dispute over islands in the East China Sea. All the territorial spats have raised concerns about a potential maritime conflict, prompting the United States to wade into the controversy.

The Obama administration says it is not taking sides but is pushing for the countries to adopt a code of conduct, which China opposes.

Blaxley said the United States wants to secure its freedom of navigation in the region.

 

Combating International Corruption .

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                  Moral  Courage  ; It  is   that   characterises  the   highest  order   of   Manhood   and  Womanhood  ....the   courage   to   seek  and  to   speak   the   truth  ,   the   courage  to  be   just  ;  the   courage   to   be   honest   ;   the   corrage   to      resist   temptation  ;  the   courage  to  do   one's  duty  .  If  Men   and   Women  do   not   possess  this   virtue   ,   they   have  no  security  whatever  for   the  preservation  of   any  other  . .....  (  Samuel   Smiles   )  .   God   bless   with   you   !  

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That is ASEAN's way .

                  The   U.S  should   drop  the  conduct   of   coercion  method  to  perform  in   the    international  community  ,  as  the   most   powerful  in   the   world  .  We  can  see   that , during  the   two   days   annual  summit    of  the   ASEAN   Phnon  Penh. 

The  ASEAN'S  way.
                 
HONG KONG — Southeast Asian leaders have failed — again — to make any headway on resolving the dangerous territorial disputes over various islands in the South China Sea.
At their regional summit meeting this week, they could not even agree to set up a crisis hotline. Even bitter enemies like North and South Korea have a cross-border hot line — three, in fact.
The meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or Asean, adjourned amid infighting and acrimony on Tuesday with Cambodia, the host nation, appearing to derail efforts at establishing a maritime code of conduct.
A binding code of conduct has been on the Asean agenda for more than a decade, and the group has blown its 2012 deadline. Riven by factionalism, the group seems to have no clear way forward, despite increasing tensions over several implacable territorial disputes.
The Spratly island group, the Paracel islands and a tiny atoll near the Philippines known as the Scarborough Shoal are claimed by various Asean countries, claims that overlap those of China, which said in June that the islands are “indisputably” Chinese territory.
Although not one of Asean’s 10 members, China counts Cambodia as a key ally and holds tremendous leverage in the region through its economic might, diplomatic clout and an increasingly muscular military.
China has long opposed what is known as an “internationalized” approach to drafting a code of conduct for the South China Sea — that is, any approach that would include the United States. And while Asean dithers on drafting its own overarching code, Beijing prefers to hold bilateral negotiations on its island disputes with each individual claimant.
Asean has never been very efficient at making policy, nor has it been very good at policing its own members, in part because of the so-called “Asean Way,” which prohibits members from interfering in each other’s domestic affairs. Myanmar, for example, after joining Asean in 1997, existed as a thuggish military regime with barely a word of reproach from its fellow members.
The group also requires a unanimous vote on any major decisions. A single dissenter among the group can block an otherwise-unanimous decision — effectively creating a hung jury. Landlocked Laos, therefore, will have just as much say over a maritime code as Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia or the Philippines.
Cambodia and its authoritarian prime minister, Hun Sen, are now solidly within Beijing’s political orbit, perhaps cajoled by more than half a billion dollars in Chinese loans, grants and gifts over the past three months. At recent Asean gatherings, Cambodia has appeared to act as a kind of Chinese proxy.
Chinese investment in Cambodia last year approached $2 billion, according to a report by Reuters — twice the combined total invested by fellow Asean countries and 10 times more than the United States.
Security analysts and regional leaders say that nasty maritime standoffs over the contested islands — due in part to a more assertive and far-reaching China — have made a code of conduct more necessary than ever.
A brushing incident at sea, for example, even an inadvertent collision, has the potential to rapidly escalate: One nation’s “bumping” is another’s “ramming.” As one Asean diplomat put it, such situations can get “a little tricky.”
Even so, the various claimants still have no collective way of communicating when such incidents occur. There’s no hotline, for example, to defuse tensions over a conflict at sea, such as the Vietnam-China skirmish over the Spratlys in 1988 in which 70 Vietnamese sailors were killed. And earlier this year a China-Philippines standoff at Scarborough Shoal dramatically raised regional tensions.
At the Asean meeting in Phnom Penh this week, Indonesia proposed the installation of a regional hot line as a practical, real-world safeguard while a formal Asean code of conduct is hashed out.
Marty Natelegawa, the Indonesian foreign minister, said that “in the future, should there be any incident of the type that we had, the ministers should be able to quickly pick up the phone and establish communication.”
Without a hot line, he said, “the risk of misunderstanding and miscalculation is bigger.”
Mr. Natelegawa said he got the general sense from other Asean members that the hot line could be “something important.”
But no action was taken.
That’s the Asean Way. 

The Gaza-Israel Violence is not a lesson for each other but for a future war in Middle-East .

                               It  is   an  incident  ,   Rockets  operation  of   searching   fire   between   Hamas   and  Israeli   to   find   out   the   strategy  of  next   middle-east  war .
                            There   was   also  an   unwritten  code  of   conduct    regarding  civilians    and  civilians'   properties  which   would   be   seen  .     I   think   ,    the   ceasefire   will   be   agreed  before  the   Israeli  government  is   continuing  to   a   mass   force   ground   invasion   .   God   bless   with   them  !   Amen  ! .
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Neither Hamas nor Israel have given any public indication they are close to agreeing to a cease-fire. Israel has continued to amass troops and armor on the Gaza border. It has called up 16,000 reservists so far, and the government has authorized the military to expand that number to 75,000 if need be.
There is deep mistrust between the longtime foes. In Gaza, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said Saturday that Hamas was unlikely to believe any Israeli cease-fire pledges even if they came. Hamas and Egypt both say that Israel indicated it was close to agreeing to a cease-fire on Monday—two days before launching the current offensive. Israel peace mediator Gershon Baskin, who helped negotiate the deal that led to the release of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit last year, said publicly Thursday that the two sides were close to a cease-fire agreement when the Israeli offensive started.
"The Israelis claim that they are ready to make a truce," Mr. Zuhri said. "The last truce they claimed is a good example: They are liars. They targeted Abu Muhammad el-Jabari as soon as they agreed with the Egyptian side on the truce. Talking about a truce is another Israeli trap. Their target is to get more time for targeting the Palestinian resistance."
Israeli officials said those cease-fire talks were being conducted by third parties, independent of the government. While officials were aware of the talks, the government wasn't involved and never agreed to anything.
Israel on Saturday pummeled political targets throughout the Gaza Strip, including the office of Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh.
Israeli's top military spokesman, Brig. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, said Israeli bombs had also struck Hamas's police headquarters and its homeland-security building in Gaza City, the main city in the coastal Palestinian enclave. It also targeted a number of commanders from Hamas's armed wing.
Israel's military said in a statement that in the early hours of Saturday it had struck "over 200 targets" including "120 underground rocket launchers and more than 20 smuggling tunnels" on the coastal enclave's border with Israel. But the pace of attacks largely tapered off as the day wore on.

     

Panetta to tout U.S. shift to Asia .

                It  is  the  U.S.   STRATGIC   of  the   control  all  over  the  Asia-Pacific  Region   as   to  contain  or  trap  the  China's   growing  economic  and  military  power .  It   will   be  separated  in   East   China  Sea  , in  South   China  Sea  at  the   core  of   Okinawa  Force   and  Asia   Region  ,  including  Russia  .  It  may  used   the  power  of   coercion   over    its  allies  in  opportunity  incident .   How   do   you  think   ? 
God  bless  with   you  ! 

US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta (left) reviews an honour guard during a ceremony prior to a meeting Thai counterpart Sukampol Suwannathat in Bangkok on Friday. Photo: AP

US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta will outline Washington’s strategic shift to the Pacific and a tentative rapprochement with Myanmar when he meets Friday with his Asian counterparts at a conference in Cambodia, officials said.
Wrapping up a week-long tour of Southeast Asia that comes before President Barack Obama visits the region next week, Panetta will join 10 fellow defence ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) in the Cambodian resort of Siem Reap.
In his talks, Panetta is expected to discuss America’s careful steps toward reopening ties with Myanmar’s military as well as Washington’s bid to “rebalance” to the Asia-Pacific.
The US tilt to Asia as well as warming relations with Myanmar reflect a concerted effort by the Obama administration to assert American influence in the face of China’s growing economic and military might.
Next week, Obama will be the first sitting US president to visit Cambodia as well as Myanmar, following a series of dramatic political changes in a country emerging from decades of military rule.
A senior US defence official told reporters travelling with Panetta that the United States was open to reviving military ties with Myanmar, but that the Pentagon would proceed at a deliberate pace.
US officials are considering cooperating with Myanmar’s armed forces on non-lethal programmes focused on military medicine, education and disaster relief exercises.
The activities would be “limited in scope” at the outset, the official added. “We’ll grow as appropriate over time. We need to see reform, we need to see continued progress.”
The overtures to Myanmar’s leaders are a source of concern for China, as Myanmar – along with North Korea – had remained firmly in Beijing’s orbit and off-limits to the Americans until now, analysts and officials said.
“From China’s perspective, enhancing US-Burma [Myanmar] security ties takes on greater significance because it was one of the few countries in China’s periphery that Beijing had a near monopoly on military, economic, and diplomatic relations,” Andrew Scobell, an expert at the US-based RAND Corporation think tank, said.
In his discussions in Cambodia, Panetta also is expected to renew US appeals for a peaceful, multilateral resolution of territorial disputes in the South China Sea and East China, which have tended to pit China against its neighbours over potentially resource-rich waters.
“We continue to be closely monitoring both the situations in the South China sea and the East China Sea,” said the senior defence official.
“Our message is going to be consistent with what we’ve said in the past, which is we don’t take sides, we want these disputes solved peacefully in accordance with international law but we do take issue with coercion,” the defence official said.
On Thursday, Panetta signed a “joint vision” statement in Bangkok reaffirming the US-Thailand military alliance for what he called a new era

Syria on fire as opposition urged to expand

                               I  have   some  notes   to  know  about   the   new  opposition   group  ,  the   National  Coalittion  alliance  as   the   following   :           
For   one  and  a   hale  to   two  years  we   have  paid   blood   for    our  freedom......,  If   they  do   something   we  can   see   on  the   ground   (  in  Syria  )   ,   that  is   better  than  sitting  outside  the   country  in   hotels  ,  eating  and   drinking  ,   while  we   are   here  dying  everyday  ,    said  Abu  Osama ,a  40  years  old  rebel   manning  a  check  point  close  to  the   Syria  -Turkish  boder .  I   think  ,  they   don't   want  the   puppet  opposition   alliance  in   exile  which  has  no  relation  with   them  . 
    

Syria clashes rage as opposition urged to expand

The Gulf Cooperation Council said its six members recognised the National Coalition as "the Syrian people's legitimate representative", and the Arab League also gave its backing.
The 22-member League, however, stopped short of granting the bloc full recognition, stating only that it saw the alliance as "the legitimate representative of the Syrian opposition".
It called on the rest of the opposition to join, and urged regional and international groups to recognise it as a legitimate representative of the Syrian people's aspirations.
EU foreign ministers meeting at the League's headquarters in Cairo took a similar stance, welcoming but declining to recognise the alliance while calling on it to bring in more regime opponents.
"It is a very important milestone and a very big step towards (recognition)," British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on the sidelines of the EU-Arab gathering.
The Europeans wanted to ensure the deal was implemented, and to see that the coalition is "as as possible of opposition groups and all communities in Syria," he said.
Rebel fighters in Syria dismissed the Gulf and Western support for the new alliance, expecting little to change on the ground unless they get cash and weapons.
"For one-and-a-half to two years, we've paid blood for our freedom. People have left their homes and die here every day and no one cares," said Abu Osama, a 40-year-old rebel manning a checkpoint close to the Syrian-Turkish border.
"If they do something we can see on the ground, that's better than sitting outside the country in hotels, eating and drinking while we're here dying every day," Abu Osama told AFP.
International rights groups said, however, that the opposition's new leadership must act to monitor and curb any violations of international law by the rebels.
"Syria’s newly created opposition front should send a clear message to opposition fighters that they must adhere to the laws of war and human rights law, and that violators will be held accountable," said Human Rights Watch.

Vatican digs in after Gay Marriage advances.

It   will   challenge  the   U.S. civilization .  Gay-Marriage  is  not   a  political   issue  but  the  issue  of   a  civilization . Legalization  is  not   only   come   from  our   politicians .  God  bless  with  you  !


The Vatican's anti-gay marriage media blitz came after three U.S. states approved same-sex marriage by popular vote in the election that returned Barack Obama to the U.S. presidency, Spain upheld its gay marriage law, and France pushed ahead with legislation that could see gay marriage legalized early next year.
"One might say the church, at least on this front, has been defeated," L'Osservatore Romano wrote. "But that's not the case."
The article insisted that Catholics were putting up a valiant fight to uphold church teaching in the face of "politically correct ideologies invading every culture of the world" that are backed by institutions like the United Nations, which last year passed a non-binding resolution condemning anti-gay discrimination.
"The church is called to present itself as the lone critic of modernity, the only check ... to the breakup of the anthropological structures on which human society was founded," it said.
Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi, for his part, said gays can have their rights protected by means other than through legal marital recognition. He stressed that children should have a right to say they have a father and a mother.
"If not, then why not contemplate freely chosen polygamy, and naturally so as to not discriminate, polyandry?" he asked sarcastically. Polyandry is when a woman has two or more husbands.
"As a result, don't expect the church to stop insisting that society recognizes a specific place for marriage between a man and woman," he said.
The U.S. election had been closely watched at the Vatican because of the strong divisions that erupted during the campaign between the Obama administration and U.S. bishops over gay marriage, which Obama endorsed in May. The administration and bishops clashed more vehemently over Obama's health care mandate requiring nearly all U.S. health insurance plans to cover contraception, which the church opposes
Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/11/10/2362422/vatican-digs-in-after-gay-marriage.html#storylink=cpy

Tokyo , Washington to discuss revision of Defense Guidelines .

                       It   is   the  relation of   the    Japan- U.S. joint  Declaration   on   Security    Alliance  ,  17.April   1996  .   

  The  operation  capabilities  of   the   U.S.  FORCE   in   Asia-Pacific  will  be    mordified   by   bilateral   defense  treaties  with   Australia  , Japan  ,New -Zealand  , Philippine  and   South  Korea  and  cooperative  plans   with   other  partners  ,   such   as  Myanmar  , Vietnam  , Thailand  and   Taiwan  ...etc .  The   U.S.   will   trap   or   contain   the   P.R.C. along  with  engagement   and  confrontation  policy .  
This  note   from  Japan-U.S. joint  Declaration ,  17.4.1996.

REGIONAL COOPERATION

7. The Prime Minister and the President agreed that the two governments will jointly and individually strive to achieve a more peaceful and stable security environment in the Asia-Pacific region. In this regard, the two leaders recognized that the engagement of the United States in the region, supported by the Japan-U.S. security relationship, constitutes the foundation for such efforts.
The two leaders stressed the importance of peaceful resolution of problems in the region. They emphasized that it is extremely important for the stability and prosperity of the region that China play a positive and constructive role, and, in this context, stressed the interest of both countries in furthering cooperation with China. Russia's ongoing process of reform contributes to regional and global stability, and merits continued encouragement and cooperation. The leaders also stated that full normalization of Japan-Russia relations based on the Tokyo Declaration is important to peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region. They noted also that stability on the Korean Peninsula is vitally important to Japan and the United States and reaffirmed that both countries will continue to make every effort in this regard, in close cooperation with the Republic of Korea.
The Prime Minister and the President reaffirmed that the two governments will continue working jointly and with other countries in the region to further develop multilateral regional security dialogues and cooperation mechanisms such as the ASEAN Regional Forum, and eventually, security dialogues regarding Northeast Asia.

GLOBAL COOPERATION

8. The Prime Minister and the President recognized that the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security is the core of the Japan-U.S. Alliance, and underlies the mutual confidence that constitutes the foundation for bilateral cooperation on global issues.
The Prime Minister and the President agreed that the two governments will strengthen their cooperation in support of the United Nations and other international organizations through activities such as peacekeeping and humanitarian relief operations.
Both governments will coordinate their policies and cooperate on issues such as arms control and disarmament, including acceleration of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) negotiations and the prevention of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery. The two leaders agreed that cooperation in the United Nations and APEC, and on issues such as the North Korean nuclear problem, the Middle East peace process, and the peace implementation process in the former Yugoslavia, helps to build the kind of world that promotes our shared interests and values.

CONCLUSION

9. In concluding, the Prime Minister and the President agreed that the three legs of the Japan-U.S. relationship - security, political, and economic - are based on shared values and interests and rest on the mutual confidence embodied in the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security. The Prime Minister and the President reaffirmed their strong determination, on the eve of the twenty-first century, to build on the successful history of security cooperation and to work hand-in-hand to secure peace and prosperity for future generations.
April 17, 1996 Tokyo 

The Sexism or Misogany , is defined by Australia P.M.

                    No   need  to   commend  according   to   her   speech  in  the  Parliament  . 
               

Australian PM praised for speech

2012-11-07 09:07

(File, AFP)  

Sydney - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Wednesday that world leaders congratulated her at the Asia-Europe Meeting in Laos on her now famous misogyny speech, which went viral on the internet.
Gillard, the nation's first woman leader, made an aggressive speech in parliament last month accusing opposition leader Tony Abbott of misogyny and sexism, giving her a significant boost in opinion polls.
The speech was viewed by millions of people on YouTube and prompted a leading dictionary to broaden its definition of the word misogyny.
Gillard said she was pleasantly surprised at the reaction she received at the international summit which ended Tuesday in Vientiane, including from French President Francois Hollande and Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt.
"The president of France congratulated me on the speech, as did the prime minister of Denmark, and some other leaders, just casually as I've moved around, have also mentioned it to me," Gillard told ABC radio.
"So some approval here from some leaders at the Asia-Europe meeting."
A fired-up Gillard accused Abbott of hypocrisy in her speech, saying she had been offended by many of his remarks over the years and she would not be "lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man".
"I've had enough, Australian women have had enough. When I see sexism and misogyny I'm going to call them for what they are," she said.
Elections are due in Australia next year.

The Same-sex marriage in the U.S.

              It  is   marriage  between  two  persons  of   the  same   biological  sex  or   gender  indentity  .     It    may   have   the    consequence    of  political ,  social,  civil-rights  and   religious  issues   in   the    recognition   of   same-sex   marriage   countries  .  
             Without   generation ,  without  family  or   relative   and   without   real    ancestral  name  are   some   of  the  civilazation   issues .

Eleven countries (Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, South Africa, Sweden) allow same-sex couples to marry nationwide. Same-sex marriages are also performed and recognized in Mexico City, Quintana Roo, and parts of the United States. Some jurisdictions that do not perform same-sex marriages but recognize it being performed elsewhere include: Israel, Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten, parts of the United States, Mexico, and Uruguay.^[8] Australia recognizes same-sex marriages only if one partner has had gender reassignment therapy.^[9]
Some analysts state that financial, psychological and physical well-being are enhanced by marriage, and that children of same-sex couples benefit from being raised by two parents within a legally recognized union supported by society's institutions.^{[10][11][12][13][14][15][16]} Court documents filed by American scientific associations also state that singling out gay men and women as ineligible for marriage both stigmatizes and invites public discrimination against them.^[17] The American Anthropological Association avers that social science research does not support the view that either civilization or viable social orders depend upon not recognizing same-sex marriage.^[18]
Some organizations have described same-sex marriage as a universal human rights issue, equality before the law,^[19] and of normalizing LGBT relationships.^[20][21][22] Several authors attribute opposition to same-sex marriage as coming from homophobia^{[23][24][25][26]} or heterosexism and liken prohibitions on same-sex marriage to past prohibitions on interracial marriage between blacks and whites.^[27]

Suu Kyi says cannot back Myanmar Rohingya .

       It   is  the  burden  of   the   President  of   the   Union   of   Myanmar  ,    Thein  Sein  who  has   formed  an  Investigation   Commission  ,  including   25  members   ,in  17,8 , 2012  .  Have   that   commission 's   Inquary   completed  their   investigation  ? 
              Please !   also   see   my   comment  of   the  Rakhine  Violence  Investigation  Commission  ( 29 August  2012 ) . 
            
  

YANGON: Aung San Suu Kyi has declined to speak out on behalf of Rohingya and insisted she will not use "moral leadership" to back either side in deadly communal unrest in west Myanmar, reports said.

The Nobel laureate, who has caused disappointment among international supporters for her muted response to violence that has swept Rakhine state, said both ethnic Rakhine and Rohingya communities were "displeased" that she had not taken their side.

More than 100,000 people have been displaced since June in two major outbreaks of violence in the state, where renewed clashes last month uprooted about 30,000 people.

Dozens have been killed on both sides and thousands of homes torched.

"I am urging tolerance but I do not think one should use one's moral leadership, if you want to call it that, to promote a particular cause without really looking at the sources of the problems," Suu Kyi told the BBC on Saturday.

Speaking in the capital Naypyidaw after talks with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, who has said the EU is "deeply concerned" about the violence and its consequences for Myanmar's reforms, Suu Kyi said she could not speak out in favour of the stateless Rohingya.

"I know that people want me to take one side or the other, so both sides are displeased because I will not take a stand with them," she said.

The democracy champion, who is now a member of parliament after dramatic changes overseen by a quasi-civilian regime that took power last year, said the rule of law should be established as a first step before looking into other problems.

"Because if people are killing one another and setting fire to one another's houses, how are we going to come to any kind of reasonable settlement?" she said.

Myanmar's 800,000 Rohingya are seen by the government and many in the country as illegal immigrants from neighbouring Bangladesh. They face severe discrimination that activists say has led to a deepening alienation.

The Rohingya, who make up the vast majority of those displaced in the fighting, are described by the UN as among the world's most persecuted minorities.

- AFP/xq

The U.S. "Primarily Political Leaders " in Syrian Opposition .

              The   U.S.  would  recruit   the  opposition  to   form   a   new   anti-government   organization   and   replace   the   Syria   Naional  Council  ,the  main    opposition  in   exile   because   of   the   serious  violence  in   Syria  like   a  terrorist   war  .

             
(CNN) -- Frustrated with the current leadership of the largely ineffective opposition movement against President Bashar Al-Assad, the State Department said Thursday it has identified individual Syrians who "show leadership" and is "bringing them to the attention" of opposition members who will gather November 7 in Doha, Qatar.

"This is primarily political leadership. People who can not only organize but provide services. Because what this really is about is the day after, and the day will come when Assad falls, and there needs to be in place structures that can provide governance and services to the people," said Patrick Ventrell, acting deputy State Department spokesman.

U.S. officials, including the Ambassador to Syria currently working in Washington, have met the individuals in several ways, an administration official told CNN.

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These include opposition conferences, governance training sessions run by the United States in Istanbul, and through recommendations by other opposition members.

The focus, the official said, is on people with political and administrative skills, not military skills. Although some of them, the official said, may have fought against the government as part of the opposition.

The United States says the current leadership, the Syrian National Council, has failed to unite the opposition.

Ventrell directly criticized the group, comprised largely of ex-pat Syrians, saying that "after many months, (it) has not succeeded in broadening its leadership -- not to more insiders, not ethnically and not geographically.

"Meanwhile, we and our friends of the Syrian people, have encountered individuals who have already displayed leadership and want to be part of Syria's future."

There is a "sense of urgency," Ventrell said. U.S. officials have said they are concerned that radicals might try to hijack the revolution with the opposition mired in its own politics.

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