Helsinki has invited the foreign minister of Burma to the 10 September summit of Asian and EU leaders - ASEM - in Finland, amid complaints from human rights activists and in contrast to previous EU decisions to freeze the pariah state out of international meetings.
Burma - renamed Myanmar by the military junta which seized power in 1988 - is currently facing an EU visa ban, an EU arms embargo and trade restrictions due to reports of grave human rights abuses including forced labour and...
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