SINGAPORE (AP)-Burma's poor human rights record will keep it from gaining membership
soon in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, officials said May 19.
They said Burma had probed possibilities for joining the group in an approach to
the ASEAN secretariat in Jakarta last month. ASEAN officials fear the United States
and the EC, probably would break off their annual dialogues with ASEAN if Burma was
granted membership.
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