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LAOS: Chris Patten sees no necessity
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BELGIUM, Brussels. The head of the European Commission Chris Patten sees no necessity to convoke the joint European-Laotian committee to find out the fate of the five Laotian demonstrators disappeared after their arrest in Vientiane on October 26, 1999.
As the Transnational Radical party (TRP) informed, on January 8, Marco Cappatto, the deputy of the Europarliament from the TRP, submitted to the European Commission an inquiry about the urgent convocation of such committee according to the article 14 of the Agreement about cooperation between the European Union and Laos.
It was supposed that at the session of this joint committee the European party would demand that the Laotian authorities give information about the fate of the citizens of Laos: Keuakoun, Sisa-At, Phengphanh, Chanmanivong and Keochay who organized on the day of the Water holiday in 1999 the first opposition demonstration in Laos after the communists seized power in this country.
The head of the European commission, the former governor of Hong Kong Mr. Patten in his answer to the inquiry of the TRP writes that the convocation of the joint committee is inappropriate as there exist "constant opportunities to discuss questions of human rights with the Laotian government by means of other channels ". Meanwhile, the human rights organizations for more than two years can't receive from the Laotian government answers to the question where the prisoners dissidents are.
As the Transnational Radical party (TRP) informed, on January 8, Marco Cappatto, the deputy of the Europarliament from the TRP, submitted to the European Commission an inquiry about the urgent convocation of such committee according to the article 14 of the Agreement about cooperation between the European Union and Laos.
It was supposed that at the session of this joint committee the European party would demand that the Laotian authorities give information about the fate of the citizens of Laos: Keuakoun, Sisa-At, Phengphanh, Chanmanivong and Keochay who organized on the day of the Water holiday in 1999 the first opposition demonstration in Laos after the communists seized power in this country.
The head of the European commission, the former governor of Hong Kong Mr. Patten in his answer to the inquiry of the TRP writes that the convocation of the joint committee is inappropriate as there exist "constant opportunities to discuss questions of human rights with the Laotian government by means of other channels ". Meanwhile, the human rights organizations for more than two years can't receive from the Laotian government answers to the question where the prisoners dissidents are.
