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AP Impact: Myanmar sanctions list languishes Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 6:29 am, Saturday, May 18, 2013 [] it leaves off a former minister's son U.S. officials suspected of brokering arms deals with North Korea, and high-rolling relatives of the man who led the repressive military government for 19 years. The Obama administration didn't add anyone to the U.S. government's Myanmar sanctions list over 3½ years, despite recommendations from the U.S. Embassy in Yangon to blacklist hundreds of top officials and their business cronies, as well as military and private companies, according to an Associated Press examination of hundreds of pages of government documents, and more than a dozen interviews with officials and business leaders in Myanmar and Washington. The administration has said it wants U.S. companies to set a "gold standard" for investment and foster a fairer, more transparent way of doing business in Myanmar. Human rights activists accuse the Obama administration of moving too fast to reward the reformist government of Thein Sein, who on Monday will become the first president of Myanmar to visit the White House in 47 years — a trip during which he'll also woo U.S. business leaders. [] the restriction with the greatest impact for investors is against dealings with individuals and companies on the Treasury Department's Specially Designated Nationals list, which identifies those linked to sanctioned governments, terrorists and drug traffickers. The sons, Pyi Aung and Nay Aung, amassed tens of millions of dollars running Myanmar's second-largest timber company, exporting rice and winning contracts to explore for oil and gas, according to a Sept. 19, 2008, cable from the U.S. Embassy in Yangon recommending their addition to the sanctions list. In the 2008 JADE Act, which remains in force, the U.S. Congress ordered the government to sanction the top generals, their immediate family members, officials implicated in human rights abuses and crony businessmen. [] an AP review of Treasury Department online reports found that a small amendment to an existing entry was the only change from the time Obama took office in 2009 until July 2012, when the administration suspended its broader sanctions on financial services and investment and made two additions to the list. "The engagement undertaking took quite a lot of political and diplomatic weight," a senior U.S. government official said, speaking on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by his department as a condition for discussing policy choices. On July 16, 2009, the U.S. Embassy said in a cable that it had sent over 400 names for sanction and warned that "many of the real perpetrators of human rights abuses or those who provide significant support to the regime are not yet targeted." The Myanmar government's failure to stop army violence against ethnic minorities and bloody communal unrest between Buddhists and Muslims has done little to slow the dramatic improvement in U.S.-Myanmar ties. [] there are the Cabinet ministers who lost their portfolios years ago but are still listed as holding them — a shortcoming that a senior Treasury official attributed to the fact that it requires a rigorous administrative process to update a filing.

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