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Myanmar: progress and challenges as a global citizen
Posted By Sarah Norgrove on September 26, 2013 @ 13:45
Myanmar looks like it's set to continue following the international ‘rules of the road’, as it has just signed the Additional Protocol to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) Comprehensive Safeguards Agreements, the implications of which are detailed in Tanya Ogilvie-White’s November 2012 Strategist piece. While this has been received as a positive step from the reforming pariah state, the proof will be in the ratification and domestic enforcement, which could take years to materialise.
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[1] Image: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/800px-Uppatasanti_Pagoda-02.jpg
[2] Additional Protocol to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) Comprehensive Safeguards Agreements: http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Factsheets/English/sg_overview.html
[3] Tanya Ogilvie-White’s November 2012 Strategist piece: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/feeding-the-nuclear-watch-dog/
[4] received as a positive step: http://isis-online.org/isis-reports/detail/in-positive-move-burma-to-sign-additional-protocol/
[5] protocol was signed: http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/mediaadvisory/2013/ma201322.html
[6] workshop: http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/2013/myanmar.html
[7] estimated growth rates: http://www.adb.org/countries/myanmar/economy
[8] boost American military ties: http://www.dvb.no/news/us-to-boost-military-ties-with-burma-but-warns-of-n-korea-connection/32040
[9] US Treasury blacklisted: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gzHyWnPlsdCrLONYiCR7S4c9A7pg?docId=CNG.139cd917a5c991206affea8be96eb682.211
[10] claimed it knew nothing: http://www.dvb.no/news/burma-denies-military-ties-with-north-korea/29199
[11] Some regional analysts: http://www.cicir.ac.cn/english/ArticleView.aspx?nid=4087
[12] much of the Chinese media: http://www.aspi.org.au/publications/publication_details.aspx?ContentID=355
[13] crying foul: http://www.chinapost.com.tw/editorial/world-issues/2013/08/07/385672/Uncle-Sam.htm
[14] displeasure at having its old haunts disturbed: http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/clash-of-the-titans-china-and-the-united-states-in-myanmar/
[15] a: https://crawford.anu.edu.au/news/290/myanmars-golden-promise
[16] Myanmar will chair: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-17/myanmar-to-host-asean-in-14-as-sein-moves-away-from-military-dictatorship.html
[17] vowed to slash foreign aid programs: http://images.theage.com.au/file/2013/09/05/4722013/2013%252009%252005%2520COSTINGS.pdf
[18] Wikimedia Commons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Uppatasanti_Pagoda-02.jpg