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Viewing cable 07STATE163971, BURMA CAAC - TALKING POINTS FOR 12/06 MEETING

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
07STATE163971 2007-12-05 23:52 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Secretary of State
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DE RUEHC #3971 3400011
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
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FM SECSTATE WASHDC
TO RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK IMMEDIATE 0000
INFO RUEHGO/AMEMBASSY RANGOON PRIORITY 0000
UNCLAS STATE 163971 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: UNSC PREL PHUM XB XC XE BY
SUBJECT: BURMA CAAC - TALKING POINTS FOR 12/06 MEETING 
 
1.  This is an action cable.  See paragraph 2. 
 
2.  USUN is instructed to attend the Burma CAAC meeting on 
12/06 at a high level if possible (French PermRep will chair 
the meeting.  The British and the Belgians are sending their 
DPRs)  USUN may draw from the following talking points during 
discussions of Burma CAAC. 
 
Begin points. 
 
-- The United States welcomes the first report from the 
Secretary General on Burma CAAC and its recommendations 
 
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contained therein. 
 
-- The United States is deeply concerned about the continuing 
recruitment and use of child soldiers in Burma.  According to 
the UN and the various NGOs operating in the area, the 
Tatmadaw Kyi recruits and uses children as young as 12 years 
old, as do certain non-state actors.  The United States 
condemns this unlawful practice and calls upon the Burmese 
regime and the non-state actors active in Burma to end 
immediately all unlawful child recruitment and their use in 
the armed forces and in armed groups.  Furthermore, the U.S. 
strongly urges the SPDC and the non-state actors to assist in 
reuniting former child soldiers with their families. 
 
-- The United States notes the establishment of various 
mechanisms by the Burmese regime to address the problem of 
child soldiers in the national army, but also notes with deep 
concern the inability of the UN or the NGO community to 
verify any progress by the SPDC on the issue of CAAC due to 
the regime's failure to comply with its commitment to provide 
unfettered access to the UN Country Team (UNCT). 
 
- The United States calls on the SPDC to provide to the UNCT 
free and confidential access to relevant people and areas, 
which include timely freedom to travel for the purpose of 
verifying information without the presence of regime 
officials.  Only when the UN has the freedom to travel 
independently and without advance notice to recruiting 
stations, military barracks, and to meet with all non-state 
actors will the world be able to know the truth about 
children in armed conflict in Burma. 
 
-- The SG's report states that the "Myanmar Defense Council" 
Military Directives explicitly prohibit recruitment of 
children less than 18 years of age.  Yet, the report also 
notes that recruitment brokers often receive large incentives 
for each new recruit regardless of age.  According to the 
report, some child recruits are poor and homeless, lured into 
the military by promises of food and shelter.  Other children 
are picked up by the national police simply for not carrying 
forms of identification and are given the choice of military 
service or jail.  Once at the recruiting centers, these 
children are often told to lie about their age to give the 
appearance of compliance with the military directives.  This 
information is consistent with what is reported by various 
NGOs operating in the area.  In one case an 11 year old boy 
told Human Rights Watch that after he failed his recruitment 
medical for being only 4'3" tall and 70 pounds, the recruiter 
bribed the medical officer to ensure his enlistment. 
 
-- The Burmese regime claims that it has taken disciplinary 
action against child recruiters in Burma, however, to date 
neither the UN nor the NGO community has been able to verify 
SPDC claims that those responsible for underage recruitment 
have been disciplined or prosecuted.  According to the 
Secretary-General's report the Burmese regime incarcerates 
 
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children for up to five years in prison if convicted of 
desertion from their military posts.  The United States 
agrees wholeheartedly with paragraph 11 of the report which 
states, "international practice and principles stipulate that 
children who have been unlawfully recruited or used by armed 
forces should not be treated as deserters." 
-- The United States also notes with deep concern paragraph 
36 of the SG's report that states the UN received credible 
reports indicating that during 2006-2007 government armed 
forces in Kayin state attacked villagers, which resulted in 
the death and injury of children.  The United States is 
equally disturbed by what the UN categorized in paragraph 39 
as "credible but unverified" reports of rapes perpetrated by 
regime forces and armed groups, not just due to the heinous 
nature of these crimes, but because the Burmese regime 
refuses to allow the UN to investigate and verify these 
reports. 
 
-- The United States calls on the SPDC to lift all 
restrictions on access to conflict-affected areas and to 
allow international and humanitarian organizations access to 
these areas for the delivery of humanitarian services.  We 
also call on the military regime to work with the UNCT to 
codify guarantees of security for victims, monitors, and 
individuals reporting cases of child recruitment and to 
facilitate the provision of visas, in-country travel 
authorizations, unhindered access, confidentiality and 
security of the UNCT in all aspects of its operations. 
 
-- The United States endorses the components of a revised 
Action Plan laid out in paragraph 47 of the SG's report.  The 
United States urges an interim report on Burma in three 
months to be followed by a full report in six to check the 
progress of the Burmese regime in providing unrestricted 
access to the UNCT and in the implementation of their plan of 
action on CAAC. 
RICE