460 rights groups call on Macron to stop French energy giant paying Myanmar $250m

MEMO
June 29, 2022 

A group of Myanmar activists demonstrate with placards calling the US government to sanction Myanmar's state-run Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise on May 22, 2022 [PHILIP FONG/AFP via Getty Images]

In an open letter to the French government 459 civil society organisations have urged President Emmanuel Macron to stop the French oil giant Total Energies paying millions of dollars to Myanmar's military-backed government.

Total Energies has operated the Yadana gas project in Myanmar since the 1990s, which pays revenues to the state-run oil and gas company, Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE).

Myanmar must take back Rohingyas: PM

The Daily Star
July 15, 2019
BSS, Dhaka

French Ambassador Marie-Annick Bourdin pays a farewell call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official Ganabhaban residence in Dhaka on Monday, July 15, 2019. Photo: PID

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today reiterated her call to Myanmar to begin the repatriation of forcibly displaced Rohingyas, saying that they (Myanmar) must take back their nationals from Bangladesh.

“The repatriation process should be started. How long will we bear the burden? … The sooner the Rohingyas are repatriated, the better it will be for all,” she said.

Bangladesh seeks continued French support for safe return of Rohingyas

UNB

Publish Date - February 28, 2019, 01:49 PM

The Senator and President Jacky Deromedi meets with the Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen at his office on Thursday, February 28, 2019. Photo: Courtesy

Dhaka, Feb 28 (UNB) - Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Thursday sought continued French support to create conducive environment inside the Rakhine State of Myanmar for their dignified return in safety and security.

“France-South East Asia,” the Inter-parliamentary Friendship Group, headed by the Senator and President Jacky Deromedi, met the Foreign Minister at his office and discussed the issue.