27 May 2009 Media Advisory

Notice of Motion – Anniversary of Detention of Aung San Suu Kyi

Today in Parliament, just after 2pm and before Question Time, Hon Maryan Street will move a Notice of Motion without debate which will state:

That the New Zealand Parliament note the anniversary on 27 May 2009 of the detention under house arrest of Nobel Prize winner Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, deplore her continued detention on political grounds and seek her immediate and unconditional release, together with the release of approximately 2100 additional political prisoners being detained in Burma by the military junta.

All parties in the House have agreed to support the motion.

Maryan Street will, later tonight, convene a meeting of the cross-party Parliamentary Group on Burma to explore ways in which the New Zealand Parliament might assist the regaining of democracy in Burma.

Maryan Street is an adjunct member of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Caucus on Myanmar and referred to the struggle in Burma in her maiden speech to Parliament in 2005 as comparable to that in South Africa in the days of apartheid.

ENDS

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