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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
Meeting No. 2
Wednesday, November 17, 1999
The Sub-Committee on Human Rights and International Development of the Standing Committee of Foreign Affairs and International Trade met at 3:38 p.m., this day, in Room 307, West Block, the Chair, Colleen Beaumier, presiding.
Members of the Sub-Committee present: Eleni Bakopanos, Colleen Beaumier, Eugène Bellemare, Aileen Carroll, Svend Robinson.
Acting Member present: Yves Rocheleau for Maud Debien.
Other Member present: Bernard Patry.
In attendance: From the Parliamentary Research Branch - Library of Parliament: James Lee; Gerald Schmitz.
Witnesses: From the Canadian Friends of Burma: Murray Thomson, Chair, Executive Committee; Penny Sanger, Member of the Executive Committee; Christine Harmston, Government Liaison. From the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade: Ingrid Hall, Director General, South and Southeast Asia Bureau; Philip Pinnington, Deputy Director, International Crime Division; Susan Brown, Chief, Peacebuilding Unit, International Humanitarian Assistance - CIDA.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2),the Sub-Committee resumed its to Information Session on Myanmar (formerly Burma).
Penny Sanger, Murray Thomson and Christine Harmston made opening statements and answered questions. Ingrid Hall, Susan Brown and Philip Pinnington made opening statements and answered questions.
At 5:29 p.m., the Sub-Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.
Georges Etoka
Clerk of the Sub-Committee