WASHINGTON, July 28 Kyodo Preside...

WASHINGTON, July 28 Kyodo

President George W Bush in succession Monday signed into law legislation slapping economic sanctions forward Myanmar including a three-year ban forward imports over the junta's detention of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the White House said.

Bush signed the legislation as it was as the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act ''to project a clear message to the regime in Burma,'' White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters Monday.

''The regime's continued detention of Aung San Suu Kyi and continued oppression of its the bulk of mankind is unacceptable and cannot be allowed to stand,'' he added.

The United States imported $256 million in clothes and other results from Myanmar last year.

The junta has been detaining the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and a members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) since May 30 following what it claimed were violent clashes between NLD supporters and pro-junta demonstrators in northern Myanmar.

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