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Canada - The Government of Canada has demanded that Burmese leaders meet with the protesters.
On September 26, Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier issued a statement that "Canada condemns the use of deadly force by the military and police against the monks and other protesters in Burma who were expressing their right to peaceful dissent, and calls on Burma to put an immediate end to such violence."
Chile - The Chilean Ministry of Foreign Relations, on September 25, expressed concern and absolutely rejected any action that would prevent the free exercise of basic human rights and called for the government of Myanmar to avoid the use of violence as well as free political prisoners as a gesture of good will to the international community. On September 28, the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the violence against protesters and called for the international community to make maximum efforts to contribute to the end of the current situation.
United States - President George W. Bush, on September 25, announced new sanctions against "the leaders of the regime and its financial backers", accusing the military dictatorship in Myanmar of imposing "a 19-year reign of fear" that denies basic freedoms of speech, assembly and worship.
"Americans are outraged by the situation in Burma," the president said in an address to the U.N. General Assembly.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who in 2005 called Myanmar one of six "outposts of tyranny", said on September 23 that the U.S. was watching the situation in the Southeast Asian country "very carefully."
"The Burmese people deserve better," Rice said. "They deserve a life to be able to live in freedom, just as everyone does. The brutality of this regime is well known." The U.S. would work to raise support for the Burmese pro-democracy protestors during this week's U.N. General Assembly gathering, Rice said.
Additionally, various college campuses ran campaigns in solidarity with anti-government protestors.
Read more about this topic: International Reaction To The 2007 Burmese Anti-government Protests
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