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25 Feb 2002

Author:
UN Wire

MYANMAR: ILO Team Optimistic About Permanent Office

As an International Labor Organization team ends a week of what it called "candid dialogue" with Myanmar's military rulers on the issue of forced labor, ILO labor standards chief Kari Tapiola today said he is "optimistic" the country will "in the long run" allow a permanent ILO office in the capital, Yangon...Discussions with the ILO team have focused on the permanent office, the appointment of an ombudsman and inquiries into murders of forced labor whistle-blowers.