APPEAL OF FTUB JAPAN COMMITTE FOR NUCLEAR FREE BURMA SIGN CAMPAIGN TO IUF JCC WRITTEN BY PHONE HLAING

To the leaders of IUF-JCC,
We FTUB-Federation of Trade Unions-Burma would like to say thanks to all of you to invite us.-
I came here to speak on behalf of Dr. Min Nyo –Patron of FTUB, and FTUB JAPAN COMMITTE. He was invited here but he cannot attend this meeting, because he is in Thailand now.
We came here to explain and appeal for your support to our Nuclear Free Burma Sign Campaign
First of all, we want to tell you that the goal of our campaign is absolutely not to discourage nuclear energy but to discourage the Burmese Military Regime’s aim to possess Nuclear Weapons. And there is no proper safety measure and can not safeguard nuclear accidents under military régime.
The Regime has been telling the world that it needs a nuclear reactor to supply energy for the country. In reality, we have other energy resources including gas which only is enough for supply.
According to the Burmese and Chinese news sources, the Burmese regime has been building the total of 48 hydropower plants, and on completion of those projects, Burma will be able to fulfill domestic electricity demand in the near future. (app-1)
Hydropower is not the only main energy source in Burma. Our country is also sitting on the very large amount of natural gas deposits. Burma’s proven natural gas reserve ranks 39 in the world. I believe all of you are well aware of the fact that the Burmese junta is selling natural gas to Thailand and China and Burma’s half of the income is coming from natural gas sale. (app-2-a, app-2-b)
So Burma does not need nuclear power to supply its energy needs according to the data I mentioned above.
Burmese Military Regime lies to the world to fulfill its nuclear dream.
Under the regime, Burma is buying and acquiring both high technology and high-tech machines related to the nuclear weapon and missile according to the ISIS report.(app-3) ISIS is Institute for Science and International Security based in United States of America.

NUCLEAR FREE BURMA
PRESENT BY PHONE HLAING
VICE PRESIDENT OF FWUBC
BURMA BUILDING 48
hydropower plants
• May 18, 2009:
• "Myanmar Works To Meet Growing Demand of Electricity"]
• Sources: Xinhua News
• Myanmar [Burma] has been working to meet its domestic
demand of electricity,
• building up a total of 13 hydropower plants covering the power
grids of the whole nation since 1988 when the present
government took office.
• On completion of other 35 ongoing hydropower projects, the
editorial predicts that
• Myanmar will be able to fulfill domestic electricity
demand in the future.
BURMA’S NATURAL GAS RESERVE
RINK 38 IN THE WORLD
• Burma Economy 2010
• SOURCE: CIA World Factbook 2010
• Natural gas - proved reserves(cu m) 2010 Country
Ranks,
• By Rank
• SOURCE: CIA World Factbook 2010
• 38- Burma - 283,200,000,000 -1 January 2009 est
January 28, 2010
-ISIS REPORT ON Burma: a Nuclear Wannabe, Suspicious Links
to North Korea
and High-Tech Procurements to Enigmatic
Facilities.
• Minimal Nuclear Capability
• Currently, Burma has little known indigenous
nuclear
• infrastructure to support the construction of
• nuclear facilities. Nonetheless, it has sought
to purchase
• a nuclear research reactor for about a
decade.
Minimal Nuclear Transparency
• Burma joined the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
• (NPT) in 1992.
• However, Burma has not agreed to update its
• commitments under the Small Quantities Protocol- SQP.
• Moreover, it has not agreed to the Additional
• Protocol,which would obligate Burma to provide far
• greater information about its nuclear activities and plans
• and allow the IAEA much greater access to Burmese sites.
• U.S. officials have expressed worries about the “nature
• and extent” of Burma’s ties with North Korea.
• Because transparency remains so minimal, the
• fundamental question remains: has Burma decided
• to embark on a covert route to nuclear weapons on
• its own or with the help of North Korea?
Suspicious or Illegal Procurement
Activities-1
• Burma is seeking abroad a large quantity of
top-notch,
• highly sophisticated goods with potential
missile
• and nuclear uses.
• According to one senior European
intelligence official.
• Its military cooperation with
• North Korea has increased over the last
several years,
• fueling concerns about nuclear cooperation.
Suspicious or Illegal Procurement
Activities-2
• North Korea could also supplement Burma’s
own foreign procurement networks, and it
• could sell nuclear goods made in
• North Korea.
• There are lingering questions about two
Pakistani nuclear scientists who reportedly
went to Burma in late 2001,
• Their whereabouts or activities since
• then remain unknown
Namchongang Trading (NCG)
• Evidence of North Korean/Burmese cooperation
includes
• the reported presence in Burma of officials from
• Namchongang Trading (NCG), a North Korean
trading
• company that is sanctioned by U.N. Security
Council.
• Syria’s reactor project depended on assistance from
NCG.
Reports of North Korea selling a
reactor
• Reports of North Korea selling a reactor to Burma date
• back to at least 2004, a time when NCG was helping
• Syria acquire its reactor. According to a 2004
• Asia Times article, citing Indian intelligence, Burma
• approached North Korea in November 2002 as a seller
• of last resort after the military regime failed to acquire a
• reactor from Russia, China, and India.
• The Asia Times article makes the additional claim that
• a reactor deal was signed between Burma and
• North Korea in early 2004. But all these claims remain
• unconfirmed.
In June 2009 Japan arrested three individuals for
attempting to illegally export
a magnetometer to Burma via Malaysia
• In June 2009, Japan arrested three individuals for
• attempting to illegally export a magnetometer to
Burma
• via Malaysia, under the direction of a company
• associated with illicit procurement for North Korean
• military programs. Authorities learned subsequently
that
• this group successfully delivered other nuclear
dual-use
• equipment to Burma.
The judge concluded that there was “thus a risk of
greatly
affecting the peace and security of Japan and the
world.”
• In November 2009, Li Gyeong Ho of Toko Boeki trading
• company was found guilty and given a two year
suspended
• sentence and a fine of six million yen (about $67,000).
• In his ruling, the judge said that all these exports or
• attempted exports involved “all dangerous
equipment
• used to develop and/or manufacture nuclear
weapons.
• The judge concluded that there was “thus a risk of
greatly
• affecting the peace and security of Japan and the world.”
procurements of extremely high
precision expensive dual-use
industrial equipment
According to a European intelligence official,
in 2006 and 2007 Burma made a series of
procurements of extremely high precision,
expensive dual-use industrial equipment,
including computer-numerically controlled
(CNC) machine tools, from companies
located in Switzerland,Germany, and Japan.
• European intelligence services
yielded that the equipment
• was multi-purpose, including
nuclear
• component manufacturing.
SECRET MISSILE OR NUCLEAR
PROGRAM
• The procurements are multipurpose
and difficult to
• correlate conclusively with a
secret missile or nuclear program.
STOP BEFORE TOO LATE
• The Syrian reactor, Iran’s gas
centrifuge uranium enrichment
program, and
• Pakistan’s highly enriched uranium
program were all enabled in large part
• because of the failure of the
international community to halt the
illicit sale
• of nuclear-related technology.
UNSAFEGUARDED NUCLEAR
PROGRAM
• The international community has a
unique opportunity to set a new
precedent
• and prevent Burma from acquiring
• materials that could eventually be
used in an unsafeguarded nuclear
program.
BURMA HAS NO REASON TO
SEEK NUCLEAR WEAPONS
• Burma has no reason to seek nuclear
weapons.
• The international community should
convince Burma
• that pledging not to do so in a truly
verifiable manner
• could provide significant benefits.
STOP BURMA REGIME’S
NUCLEAR PROGRAM NOW!!!!!
•WE FTUB ASK FOR
•YOUR SUPPORT.
•THANK YOU
In reality, the Burmese Generals are trying to possess nuclear weapons following the step of their close friend North Korea. They think that if they possess nuclear weapon, they will be in a stronger position just like the regime in North Korea and cannot be overthrown easily.
It is the real danger of threat to regional stability across Asia including Japan and other nations.
Therefore, we strongly urge the world to prevent Burma’s nuclear program.
Our FTUB has been working hard on it. At the same time, we would like to ask for your support to our campaign. And I also would like to inform you that our associate Japanese trade union JAM (Japanese Association of Metal, Machinery and Manufacturing Workers) has started to collect signatures in KANTO area( not only in their headquarters but also in all grass roots level). We are very hopeful and grateful to such cooperation.
We have already requested the support from following IUF-JCC member unions.
1.Food RENGO
2.UIZENSEN
We also asked for support from All NTT Workers Union of Japan.
We are very hopeful and grateful for their cooperation.
And we are asking for support from all the member unions of IUF-JCC too.

Thank you very much.

Phone Hlaing
Vice President
FWUBC
Federation of Workers’ Union of Burmese Citizens (in Japan)
Member of FTUB JAPAN COMMITTE.
2nd, April, 2010.

Appendixes
(1) May 18, 2009: "Myanmar Works To Meet Growing Demand of Electricity"]
Sources: Xinhua News
(2-a)Corridor of Power By Shwe Gas Movement.
(2-b) EIA - International Energy Data and Analysis for Burma
(3) Burma: a Nuclear Wannabe, Suspicious Links to North Korea and High-Tech Procurements to Enigmatic Facilities- January 28, 2010