British Foreign Office warns Lloyd's over Burma

အဂၤလိပ္နိုင္ငံျခားေရးဝန္ႀကီးက အဂၤလိပ္အာမခံဂ်ိဳင္းရင့္ လိဳြက္ ကို ဗမာစစ္အစိုးရနဲ ့စီးပြားေရးဆက္ဆံမွဳေတြဆက္လက္ျပဳလုပ္ေနလို ့
ကန္ ့ကြက္ေႀကာင္းေျပာႀကားလိုက္ပါတယ္၊ မလုပ္ရဘူးလို ့ေတာ့ေျပာတာမဟုတ္ပါဘူး လက္ရိွ EU ရဲ့ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံအေပၚပိတ္ဆို ့အေရး
ယူမွဳေတြထဲမွာ ေငြေႀကးနဲ ့ စြမ္းအင္ ဆိုင္ရာပိတ္ဆို ့မွဳေတြမပါဝင္တာေႀကာင့္ လိဳြက္ကို တားဆီးဖို ့ဆို တာ အဂၤလိပ္အစိုးရအေနနဲ ့ကိုယ့္
သေဘာနဲ ့ကိုယ္လုပ္မွျဖစ္ပါလိမ့္မယ္ က်ြန္ေတာ္တိုအဂၤလန္ကျမန္မာအေရးေဆာင္ရြက္ေနတဲ့ ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားအဆိုအရ လိဳြက္ သာ
ေနာက္ဆုတ္သြားရင္ စစ္အစိုးရ ရဲ ့စီးပြားေရးဆိုင္ရာအေျခအေနေတြဟာအႀကီးအက်ယ္ကေမာက္ကမျဖစ္နိုင္ေႀကာင္းေျပာဆိုေနႀကပါ
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/sep/28/insurance.foreignpolicy

FO warns Lloyd's over Burma
Nick Mathiason The Observer,
Sunday September 28 2008
The Foreign Office has written to Lloyd's of London chairman Lord Levene to outline its disapproval that Lloyd's brokers are trading with the Burmese military dictatorship.

The letter has forced Levene to write to the insurance market's managing agents last week 'urging them to consider' their involvement with the repressive regime.


Levene's intervention has fallen short of suggesting an outright boycott but is still a significant development. Lloyd's has historically been involved in Burma, despite international boycotts. Its syndicates reinsure the junta's aviation and shipping interests, and its involvement is pivotal because it is a 'market maker' encouraging other reinsurers to share risk on Burmese government interests. Without Lloyd's, campaigners believe the repressive regime would be in economic turmoil.

Johnny Chatterton of the Burma Campaign said: 'This is totally humiliating for Lloyd's. For years it has refused to accept that its members are helping to fund the Burmese regime. We welcome the British government's intervention. Lloyd's is now under colossal pressure to cut its links.'

The US government has also recently placed pressure on American insurers to cease trading with the regime. The EU's existing sanctions against Burma do not extend to financial services or energy.