Coiled Fur

BREAKING NEWS UPDATE!


This is my favorite Akubi Zone find of the day:


Unfortunately, Count-M didn't cite the source. Any ideas?

In other Coiled Fur-related news, I'm drinking a Silver Needle tea from Mariage Frères, but I no longer have any of the specific details.
Fox on a Rock by *Nzeman
Lin Hai Pan Hao is processed using tea leaves that were harvested from Fu Ding Bai Hao tea plant variety, the same type used in making Bai Hao Yin Zhen (Silver Needle White tea). The name "Pan Hao" translates to "Coiled Fur". It is so called because the tea leaves are coiled into the shape of tiny pellets and are completely covered with white down.
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Pink Octopus Rides Large Koi, Christ Carwash Babes and Crazy Casey Serin

Silly crap like this helps me get my mind off of poor Colin, the whale calf who lost his mother and his life.



In case you missed it in the comments section, this Chinese Christ carwash calendar is pretty bizarre:
Mitchell said...
Strangeness alert: the People's Daily (China) serializes a car wash calendar issued by "Christ Wash Systems". Funny to see "the organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China" (Wikipedia) featuring this stuff, but I guess it's been forty years since the Cultural Revolution...
August 20, 2008 9:19 PM


Casey Serin has officially lost his mind if he thinks anyone other than MOCHA or Monica wants to see him in bed.

One dollar koi and such

One dollar koi_new ver. side by *orudorumagi11
Other than a brief perusal of the NYT, I've been offline and fallen behind on my regular level of info-saturation. As I make up for lost time, I thought Mitchell’s recent comment was well worth highlighting for further discussion:
Mitchell said...
Pardon me for being boring but I'd like to brood aloud on this GSE bailout thing for a moment. It's all good; half the effect here comes from the conjunction of koi-eating octopi and mortgage securitization, right? So someone has to step up and post a comment as if this were just another housing-bubble econoblog. (Actually, it's just a lot more fun to talk about this stuff here than at the more serious places.)

So, at first it sounds bigger than subprime, much bigger. You have these two New-Deal-era institutions which own or securitize half the country's mortgages, $6trn worth. Those are their assets; but their liabilities, in the form of promised payments to bondholders, are just as big. And since housing prices are still falling, the value of their assets will shrink, and their balance sheets will end up massively in the red - which may add several trillion more dollars to the already huge ($10trn) federal debt.

Now hold on! - says the counterargument. Yes, houses may fall a lot further in value, but the GSEs own the mortgages, most of them originated pre-2005. A decline in the paper value of the house does not affect the value of the mortgage, unless it increases the risk of default, and that should only apply to people who have already tried to cash in a large part of the alleged value of their house, e.g. by taking out home equity loans. Which will be some of them, but overall the mortgages owned by the GSEs are a whole lot more reliable than the subprime ninjas were, right? So maybe their asset base won't decline too greatly in value after all.

But consider this (says the counter-counter-argument): this is the year of the great food and fuel crisis, in which the price of everything basic is going through the roof. Even if we ignore the effects of asset deflation, the simple increase in the cost of living is going to affect the ability of many people to keep up the mortgage payments, and some of them are going to default.

That's where my ability to argue with myself runs out, because to go any further you need some numbers for prospective default rates and I don't have them. Maybe someone at Calculated Risk does. Meanwhile, I'd like to point out the amazing facts about who the GSE bondholders are, i.e. the people they owe that $6trn to. It seems bizarre that the Chinese and Russian central banks should each own a slice of the American mortgage market, supposedly just as valuable as 10% of their entire national economies. It seems bizarre, and yet I feel that if I keep digging, eventually I'll come upon some set of relationships which sum up the totality of the global economy: who owns what, who owes what. It'll be like when Neo first gets his "Matrix vision". And then, as the world's foremost financial shaman puts it, the money will burn in my head forever after.
July 14, 2008 5:44 AM

dollar kois by *orudorumagi11
Don't miss the dollar toilet bowl featured at Edgar's Toilet!


Koi Pond by *orudorumagi11

The Post-American World

Zakaria's central thesis is that while the U.S. still has many unique assets, "the rise of the rest" -- the Chinas, the Indias, the Brazils and even smaller nonstate actors -- is creating a world where many other countries are slowly moving up to America's level of economic clout and self-assertion, in every realm. "Today, India has 18 all-news channels of its own," notes Zakaria. "And the perspectives they provide are very different from those you will get in the Western media. The rest now has the confidence to present its own narrative, where it is at the center."

For too long, argues Zakaria, America has taken its many natural assets -- its research universities, free markets and diversity of human talent -- and assumed that they will always compensate for our low savings rate or absence of a health-care system or any strategic plan to improve our competitiveness.

"That was fine in a world when a lot of other countries were not performing," argues Zakaria, but now the best of the rest are running fast, working hard, saving well and thinking long term.

"They have adopted our lessons and are playing our game," he said. If we don't fix our political system and start thinking strategically about how to improve our competitiveness, he added, "the U.S. risks having its unique and advantageous position in the world erode as other countries rise."

When Wagga sent me this article mentioning Fareed Zakaria's “The Post-American World” I was reminded of this recent photo of Obama.

Other than "My Pet Goat" I wonder what Bush has read since he has been in office...

Lassie for Dinner

This story really disturbed me...

On my first trip to China I met a dog who was a dead ringer for Lassie. He lived with a dozen other dogs at a remote training camp for Olympic skiers in Manchuria, where a friend and I were spending a few days as we explored the area's backcountry skiing. In return for food and lodging we gave the Chinese athletes some clinics in American ski techniques.

The dog quickly became my friend. He would twirl happily in my arms before I headed up the slopes each morning and would be waiting for me when I returned. Dropping to my knees, I'd play tag with him, and he'd wag his tail so hard that his entire body would shimmy. The Chinese skiers paid no attention to the dogs.

On the day before we departed, at lunch, our translator stood and called the mess hall to silence. "To thank our American friends for showing us so much about skiing," he announced, "our chef will prepare a special dish tonight." He nodded to the head coach, who waved his hand toward the door. Two of the Chinese skiers, standing at the ready, opened it with a flourish, and the white-aproned chef stepped inside, holding aloft my friend, the collie, by his tail. He had been gutted from throat to groin.

Stunned, I couldn't say a word, but that evening when a large platter of dog meat was put in the center of our table, I regained my voice. My ski partner, a better cultural ambassador than I, gingerly took a few bits of the dish with her chopsticks. I declined. "Please thank the head coach," I told our translator, "but I can't. I have too many friends at home who are dogs."

More from An Olympic disgrace



When the fur is finally peeled off over the animals' heads, their naked, bloody bodies are thrown onto a pile of those who have gone before them. Some are still alive, breathing in ragged gasps and blinking slowly. Some of the animals' hearts are still beating five to 10 minutes after they are skinned. One investigator recorded a skinned raccoon dog on the heap of carcasses who had enough strength to lift his bloodied head and stare into the camera.

Pledge to go fur-free at PETA.org.

This is very disturbing video of raccoon dogs and foxes being skinned alive. It is horrifying to see a completely conscious raccoon dog moving about for a good 5 to 10 minutes after being completely skinned alive. Why can't they at least bother to make sure the animal is dead before skinning them? Absolutely cruel, inhumane and barbaric!

If you see someone wearing fur you might want to remind them of the torture the animal had to endure.
In this Beijing News report, half the raccoon dogs and foxes were skinned alive.






Further memories of drafting the 80's and meat is murder (yet fur is worse)!

Tea Party

Tea Party III by ~xmansonx

Not exactly the sort of tea party I had in mind, but the combination of tea, fishnets, guns and cats in this image was compelling (see I'm not an arugula loving, elitist SF Bay Area snob!).

Anyway, I returned to this incredible tea shop in Chinatown today and was reminded once again of how impressive their tea is. Yes, I spent far more money on it than I would prefer, but tea lasts – especially Blest Tea. I’m still enjoying a bag I bought over 6 months ago. They haven’t been around much longer than that, but finally have a “web site”: http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/blesttea
I highly recommend the Honey Green and Milk Oolong.


This afternoon I was happy to discover my tea fortune was Buddha.
Society's Punch_02 by ~caspash13lds

Free Tibet.

BREAKING NEWS UPDATE!

(04-07) 12:22 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Three demonstrators scaled the south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge today and unfurled a banner in a protest intended to draw attention to Chinese human rights violations in Tibet.

I think I'll participate in Candle Lights for Human Rights tomorrow night.

Join Richard Gere, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Tibetan leaders and other special guests for a historic rally and candle light vigil in support of the Tibetan people and their struggle for basic human rights. As China prepares to host the Olympics in August, the government is conducting the worst crackdown in Tibet since the 1960s Cultural Revolution.

Come show your support for the Tibetan and Chinese people on the eve of the Beijing Olympic torch passing through San Francisco - the only stop in North America.


Tuesday April 8th 2008
United Nations Plaza
1150 Market Street
San Francisco, CA
Civic Center BART


Rally & Speeches 6:00pm
Culture / Music 7:15pm
Candle Light Vigil 8:00pm

China posts wanted list for Tibet

"China must resolutely crush the conspiracy of sabotage and smash 'Tibet independence forces'," the paper said in an editorial.

Cthulhu Elephant?

Actually it is an indian street painting of Indra's multi-trunked elephant.
via automatism

Also, Wagga sent me this depressing article that states there are only 3500 tigers left worldwide.
Note: "The Chinese government is actively planning to legalise the trade (of tiger products) and if they legalise this trade then the demand for wild tigers is going to increase manyfold," he said, pointing out that people preferred products from wild tigers over farmed animals.

Burma's Illegal Wildlife Trade

Hat tip to Wagga for this disturbing find...
Bear Bile, Tiger Parts Sold in Myanmar Markets


"I've seen badly kept chimps and gorillas, but I've never seen 80 bears kept in a commercial setting in totally disgusting conditions … never having a hope in hell of getting out of there alive, and every day getting milked through a catheter in their stomachs," said Karl Ammann, a photographer who records Myanmar's (Burma)'s illegal wildlife trade.

Young monkeys, seen here on sale at Möng La's Central Market in April 2006, are still common fare in many restaurants in Myanmar and especially China, according to wildlife photographer Karl Ammann.

Militia leader and alleged former drug lord Sei Leun rules an autonomous fiefdom nestled in the hills of northern Myanmar (Burma).

Featured Baabaabaab comment: Mitchell on the "The world would soon forget?"

In regards to Edgar's Engdahl link in "The world would soon forget?"

Mitchell said...
Edgar's link is temporarily not working, but you can still find Engdahl's essay at Asia Times, and elsewhere.

I do not think that even Engdahl says that "it was outside influences that got the unrest started". Price rises are always good for an angry mob, especially in a place where the state owns everything. And people do not need the US State Department's go-ahead before they start using digital media to smuggle out words and images of a crackdown. (I note that he overlooked "Blog about a blog about a blog about a blog", in his catalog of made-in-USA subversive institutions.)

There are a few other potentially misleading items I can see. The IMF today is far from being the government-toppling economic enforcer it was in Indonesia ten years ago. And "Malabar 07" only got underway four weeks after the demonstrations started. So I would be very cautious in adopting Engdahl's interpretation of world events. (For a further example, go to his website and see his "ex peak oil" essay, especially his remarks about Russian "abiotic oil" expertise being the prize in the Yukos affair.)

October 16, 2007 6:09 PM

Lovely Image of Cho Oyu

via Santa Flipper Clause on EN.



Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha...


Yesterday, we had a tangerine party. Everyone was offered one tangerine. We put the tangerine on the palm of our hand and looked at it, breathing in a way that the tangerine became real. Most of the time when we eat a tangerine, we do not look at it. We think about many other things. To look at a tangerine is to see the blossom forming into the fruit, to see the sunshine and the rain. The tangerine in our palm is the wonderful presence of life. We are able to really see that tangerine and smell its blossom and the warm, moist earth. As the tangerine becomes real, we become real. Life in that moment becomes real.

Mindfully we began to peel our tangerine and smell its fragrance. We carefully took each section of the tangerine and put in on our tongue, and we could feel that it was a real tangerine. We ate each section of the tangerine in perfect mindfulness until we finished the entire fruit. Eating a tangerine in this way is very important, because both the tangerine and the eater of the tangerine become real. This, too, is the basic work for pea

The world would soon forget?

“The lesson so far is that sanctions alone are not enough,” said Michael Green, an expert on Asia at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. “They must be part of a larger strategy, and it’s not clear yet that the United States or the international community is prepared to put that effort into the diplomatic side.”

He added: “There is always the danger that the indignation you see could fade. The junta may have calculated that this is like pulling a scab off. A brief pain, but the world would soon forget.”
...
Already China has said it considers the protests in Myanmar an internal affair, and it insisted on muting the language of a United Nations Security Council resolution last week that “strongly deplores” the crackdown.
Although China has joined international criticism of the violence, a Foreign Ministry spokesman in Beijing told reporters last week, “Sanctions or pressure will not help to solve the issue in Myanmar.”
India, which has dropped its condemnation of Myanmar in favor of economic competition there with China, sent its strongest signal not through words but through actions. At the height of the protests, India’s oil minister traveled to Myanmar to sign a deal to explore for offshore gas.
Myanmar’s neighbors in Southeast Asia, who have been abandoning their policy of “non-interference” in favor of strong words, issued a statement saying they were repulsed and appalled by the use of violence against demonstrators. But none has made a move to cut back on extensive economic ties with Myanmar.
...
Excerpts from U.N. Envoy Says Myanmar Must Halt Arrests

In other Burma news: Rolls-Royce Pull Out of Burma

“We welcome the fact that Rolls-Royce have finally done the decent thing, and cut their ties with this brutal regime,” said Myo Thein, Campaigns Officer at Burma Campaign UK. “Companies should not be helping to fund a regime that slaughters its own population. We call on companies such as Total Oil, Chevron, Daewoo, Orient Express and Hutchison Whampoa, owners of 3 Mobile, to follow their example.”Rolls-Royce featured on the ‘Dirty List’ of companies directly or indirectly funding the regime in Burma. The full list can be viewed at: http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/dirty_list/dirty_list.php Rolls Royce have now been removed from the list.

Breaking News UPDATE via Edgar: CHOKEPOINT!The Geopolitical Stakes of the Saffron Revolution
Still not sure what to make of this perspective.

Junta Restores Internet Access in Burma

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Myanmar's (mee-an-MAWRS') military government has restored Internet access and relaxed a nighttime curfew, a partial easing of its crackdown on pro-democracy protests.

In related news...

The Global Internet Freedom Consortium (GIF)- an organisation created to help people in China bypass Government censorship of the Internet, says that Burmese web surfers have discovered its facilities and are using them to circumvent Internet censorship amid the recent crackdown by the Myanmar military junta.

The Global Internet Freedom Consortium was formed in 2006 as an alliance of organisations developing and deploying anti-censorship technologies for Internet users in oppressive regimes. The Consortium says it partners "have contributed significantly to the advancement of information freedom in China."

According to GIF, two of its member companies - UltraReach Internet Corp (UR) and Dynamic Internet Technology received over 120,000 average daily hits from IP addresses originating from Burma in September, a sharp increase from less than 40,000 back in August.

Excerpted from Burmese bloggers and surfers discover anti-censorship web technologies


The National's slow drone song.

Vote for 6 Degrees of Casey Serin to Than Shwe Winner

Hey Kidz,

It's time to vote for the 6 Degrees of Casey Serin to Than Shwe winner!

Woohoo! Win-win!

Here are the super-sweet entries to choose from:

Edgar said...
Hi akubi!

That's easy:

1) Than Shwe is a tin pot dictator who pisses me off.

2) Casey Serin doesn't have a pot to piss in, and he pisses me off.

3) Done.

October 5, 2007 2:44 PM
Edgar said...
No BBQ sauce, Edgar?

Okay ogg:

1) Than Shwe is an ass.

2) A ham is made from the ass of a pig.

3) Chevron is a U.S. pig corporation that exploits foreign people for their oil.

4) Casey Serin documented his flipping, cash back, and fraudulent borrowing exploits on a blog called iamfacingforeclosure.com.

5) Casey Serin, aka KC, and Than Shwe, aka tin pot dictator and American puppet, should both have their asses barbequed in KC Masterpiece barbeque sauce, which, BTW, contains molasses.
October 5, 2007 5:58 PM

Ogg the Caveman said...
1. Than Shwe's birthday is February 2.
2. Than Shwe was the head of the Burmese government during the crackdown of 2007.
3. Than Shwe became deputy minister of defense in 1985.
4. On Than Shwe's orders, a constitutional convention began on January 9, 1993.
5. Casey Serin has 2759 unique creditors.
October 5, 2007 5:58 PM

Ogg the Caveman said...
Ok, one more:

1. Than Shwe is dictator of Burma.
2. Burma Shave used a distinctive form of advertising involving a series of roadside signs.
3. I've seen the same approach used to advertise rental hot tubs.
4. A hot tub is similar to a jacuzzi.
5. In a recent post on sweet derivative blogger Akubi's porn venture, property flipper Anya appears in a jacuzzi. (NSFW, obviously)
6. Casey Serin is a failed property flipper.
October 6, 2007 5:31 PM

Schnapps said...
Although Ogg's contribution is incredibly sublime, I feel compelled to contribute:

1. Than Shwe is the leader of Myanmar (Burma) and a strong proponent of that country's participation in the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN).

2. Australia is a member of the ASEAN regional forum.

3. Casey got kicked by a kangaroo in Australia.
October 5, 2007 8:05 PM

Mitchell said...
1. Than Shwe is in the news because he cracked down on the monks again.

2. The monks were demonstrating because Myanmar doubled the price of oil.

3. Prices are high because of high demand from rising economies, especially China.

4. China's boom gave it lots of US dollars to invest.

5. Foreign demand motivated Wall Street to issue as many mortgage-backed securities as it could.

6. Casey Serin got his loans because of Wall Street's eagerness to securitize them.
October 5, 2007 11:54 PM

Free Burma NOW!

Under cover of a curfew, security forces raided monasteries and pagodas across the city. At about 2am, they descended on Ngwe Kya Yan, smashing windows, decapitating statues of Buddha, stealing jewellery and cash and thrashing monks with cudgels.

The next morning, the director-general of Burma's Religious Affairs Department visited the monastery to ask its abbot to leave for the Kaba Aya Pagoda in another part of the city. The engineer, who was there, said the abbot told the official: "I will not abandon this place."

He said: "The director-general told the monks to clean up all the blood, but they refused because they wanted to show what had happened."

At 11.30am, after the official delegation left, the soldiers and police returned with members of an official militia called Masters of Force.

The engineer said: "From every side ... people came out and surrounded the monastery. The soldiers and police inside began to panic because they cannot leave."

- Excerpted from Locals die defending monks


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Strange Juxtaposition

Quick update: Gotta love the leadership the U.S. of F-ing A has provided!
Sweet BS La-da-da-da!
Awesome leadership. Where's the applause for this upstanding country of entropic, fat, consumers of perpetual crap?
Yeah, I plan to boycott as much as necessary.


Since Chevron owns Unocal* I found the juxtaposition of their advertising in this Dashing hopes in Myanmar article rather unsettling.

*CCR filed suit against the Unocal oil corporation alleging that it was aware of and supported slave labor, murder, rape and forced relocation of villagers by the Burmese military during the construction of an oil pipeline from Burmese oil fields to Thailand. The parties to several lawsuits related to Unocal's energy investment in the Yadana gas pipeline project in Myanmar/Burma have reached a settlement. Although the terms are confidential, the settlement in principle will compensate plaintiffs and provide funds enabling plaintiffs and their representatives to develop programs to improve living conditions, health care and education and protect the rights of people from the pipeline region.

More on Doe v. Unocal

International Bloggers' Day for Burma on October 4th

Take part in this action for a Free Burma!
1. Publish a posting (Bulletin Board, Forum, Blog, Social Network, Static Website…) on the 4th of October with the header: “Free Burma!”
2. Tag it if you can with “Free Burma”
3. Choose a grafic from our Grafics page and
4. Link to http://www.free-burma.org/ there your readers will find some informations about the campaign and Burma and a participant list which you can join. Even if you're a webmaster of a bulletin board or social network you will find a special Group List to join.
5. Feel free to write any additional text you want
If you have no website or blog we need you even more: Please help us to spread the word across the internet, tell your neighbours, friends or kids and first of all: Sign our list of participants!

Note all of the diamonds Than Shwe's daughter is wearing at her wedding...

8888 Ultimatum to China

Reposted from Burma-Myanmar Genocide 2007:

Ultimatum to China (due Oct 2, 9:00am)
Ultimatum to the Government of People's Republic of China

We are the 8888 student activists overseas who have been relentlessly seeking for the freedom of Burma from the military rule in Burma, side by side with the 8888 generation in Burma since 1988. As you have already known, Burma has become the most important trouble spot in Asia quite sometime. That was why the Burma's crisis drew the attention of the UNSC to do something about it. And, the US and EU's effort to take action against the regime in Burma under the mandate of UNSC was vetoed by China and Russia on Jan 12, 2007.

Nowadays, we have been calling on you to render full and strong support in our cause – restoration of freedom and democracy in Burma – by co-sponsoring with the US for an urgent agenda in the Security Council but we don't see any profound and immediate assistance in this matter from your Regime. Moreover, China and Russia gave a green light to a slaughter of the monks and activists at the last meeting of the U.N. Security Council emergency meeting by simply saying "just an internal affair". As a result, we have no alternative route to gain your sympathy as a fellow Buddhist country or intervention as a good neighbor but declare a war by any all means possible in non-violent ways.

Chinese government always insists that Burma crisis was not a threat to international peace and security, and it is just its own internal affairs. How dare you to say such a thing like that when the whole world has deplored such horrible crimes against the Buddhist Monks, who are in their peaceful procession chanting the hymns about love, forgiveness and reconciliation. What the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued a blunt warning to Burma's generals, noting, as he put it," the age of impunity is dead" is absolutely true. We Burmese dissidents and people all over the world have no more vulnerability. Our patience for China is wearing thin. After we defeat China, Russia is to be next if Russia also fails to comply accordingly.

Here is our demand. Chinese Government must play a leading role to stop killing spree in Burma and support UNSC intervention to Burma. The ultimatum for China to join the world's body will be 72 hours starting from September 29, 2007 9:00 am to October 2, 9:00 am US Eastern Time. If China fails to meet our demands, we have decided to wage you the following global campaigns.
1. Boycott 2008 Olympic campaign
2. Boycott China's products.

Please visit our campaign at this link; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc2za8K1RUs

We, all Burmese around the world will organize global action against China allied with Tibetans Dissidents, all religious organizations, any government organizations including all Chinese and Russian friends around the world to participate with us.

Victor Naing (88 Generation)

Date: September 29, 2007

P.S. All Oversea Burmese must show the China that we Burmese are how much smart and sharp and unite when we need to do so.

CCs:
H.E. Ban Ki Moon, Secretary-General, United Nations, New York
UNSC MEMBERS NATIONS
EU MEMBERS NATIONS
ASEAN MEMBER NATIONS
ALL RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS
USCB US CAMPAIGN FOR BURMA
INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET
DASSK and National League for Democracy (Burma)
National Coalition Government of Union of Burma (Washington, DC)
National Council of Union of Burma (Thai-Burma border)
State Peace and Development Council (SPDC)
Mr. George W. Bush, President of United State of America
All Burmese Citizens in exile

Boycott Total Oil!

May they live peacefully

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Spread the word!

May all beings be free from enmity.
May all beings be free from ill treatment.
May all beings be free from troubles.
May all beings be free from suffering.
May all beings protect their own happiness.
May all beings be happy.
May I be happy.

China has consistently implemented a policy of non-interference in other countries' internal affairs. As Burma's neighbours, we hope to see stability and economic development in Burma. We hope and believe that the government and people of Burma will properly deal with the current problem.
- CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY

We consider any attempts to use the latest developments to exercise outside pressure or interference in the domestic affairs of this sovereign state to be counterproductive. We still believe that the processes under way in Myanmar do not threaten international and regional peace and security.
We expect the country's authorities, as well as the participants in protest marches, to exercise mutual constraint not to allow further destabilisation of the situation.
- RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY

Other international reactions: In quotes: Burma reaction