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US Senators Call for Sanctions on Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise
Yadana gas field offshore facility in the Andaman Sea. / Total Myanmar
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By The Irrawaddy 28 April 2021
U.S senators have urged the Biden administration to impose sanctions on Myanmar’s state-owned oil and gas enterprise the largest source of foreign revenue for the military regime – in the aftermath of the Feb. 1 coup and the junta’s ongoing human rights abuses against Myanmar’s people.
On Tuesday, a bipartisan group of U.S senators including Jeff Merkley, Marco Rubio and four others, sent a letter calling on Washington to target or freeze all foreign currency revenues and foreign exchange reserves held in state accounts outside of Myanmar. The senators said that the administration’s first step should be imposing sanctions on the state-owned Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE), now under the control of the junta’s leaders.
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Elected MPs challenge Myanmar junta, appoint four ministers 2 minutes read
Yangon, Myanmar, March 3 (efe-epa).- Elected parliamentarians who do not recognize Myanmar’s military junta have challenged the military and appointed several ministers, including a foreign minister.
The appointments were made Tuesday by the parliamentary committee, which groups part of the parliamentarians elected in November and could not formally assume their seats due to the Feb. 1 military coup.
The army stopped the majority of the elected government, including deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint, on the morning of the coup, canceling the parliamentary inauguration scheduled for the same day.