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The EU approves of how an independent Asian nation is handling ethnic rioting. I just want to remind folks that Obama does not want to have a European non interventionist foreign policy, he actually supports countries getting involved in internal matters.
EU welcomes "measured" Myanmar response to rioting - Yahoo! NewsThe European Union said on Monday it was satisfied with Myanmar's "measured" handling of the Muslim-Buddhist violence that engulfed one of its biggest towns at the weekend. As rival mobs of Muslims and Buddhists torched houses in Sittwe, the biggest town in northwestern Myanmar, police fired into the air and Muslims fled to neighboring Bangladesh.
The fighting was the worst communal violence since a reformist government replaced a junta last year, began to allow political pluralism and vowed to tackle ethnic divisions - moves that helped persuade the United States and European Union to suspend economic sanctions.
Brussels made clear that it did not believe this situation had changed, welcoming the "measured response" of President Thein Sein, who on Sunday warned against "never-ending hatred, desire for revenge and anarchic actions".
"We believe that the security forces are handling this difficult intercommunal violence in an appropriate way," said Maja Kocijanic, spokeswoman for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton. "We welcome the priority which the Myanmar Government is giving to dealing with all ethnic conflicts."