Comments on the Government’s plans to suspend military co-operation with Myanmar’s armed forces – McInnes

Liz
McInnes MP, Labour’s Shadow Foreign Office Minister, responding to the Government’s
announcement that it plans to suspend military co-operation with Myanmar’s
armed forces, said:

“Labour
has been calling for a suspension of UK military support to Myanmar for several
weeks now. So this is a welcome announcement, albeit a belated one, and we hope
that it will serve as a precedent for similar action regarding ongoing UK
support for Saudi-led military operations in Yemen.

"For
now, the Government’s most immediate priority must be to build on this
announcement by putting pressure on the civilian and military authorities in
Myanmar, in co-ordination with our allies, in order to bring the horrific
violence in Rakhine state to an end once and for all.”