Myanmar: International aid not coming despite 'open door'
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Yangon - International donors should take the opportunity of Myanmar's new open door policy to send more aid, President Thein Sein said Thursday.
Wide-ranging US and EU sanctions against Myanmar were lifted this year in response to reforms Thein Sein has implemented since taking office in March 2011, but this has yet to translate into a significant increase in donor aid.
"Our government has opened the door to international community, so you all should welcome our move with constructive view and cooperate with us," Thein Sein told a conference in Naypyitaw.
"Due to various reasons, we have been neglected by international organisations denying our rights," Thein Sein told the conference on social protection for Myanmar, which was attended by United Nations agencies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs).
Aid donors should recognize that the new "open-door policy" had been implemented " for the sake of all of our people," he said.//DPA
