I'm gonna be very brief.

As you know, the assault on Burma's transition democracy remains an issue of deep bipartisan concern.

We've consulted at length, for example, with Senator McConnell, who has had a very keen interest in this and his team, and we welcome their helpful insights.

We've also been in close contact with our allies and partners around the world, particularly in the end of Pacific region, driving vigorous diplomatic outreach to help coordinate an international response to what happened.

A strong and unified message emerging from the United States has been essential, in our view, to encourage in other countries to join us in pressing for immediate return to democracy.

Last week, the United States helped bring together the U.

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Security Council, which issued a strong statement in support of Burmese democracy.

And this week we will use our renewed engagement on the Human Rights Council to strengthen the world's commitment to human rights in Burma being to make some comments as we did at the State Department.

So I'm gonna be going for here to there today.

I again call on the Burmese military to immediately release the democratic political leaders and activist, and they're now detained, including on song sushi.

And she is, and also when meant the president.

The military must relinquish power it seized and demonstrate respect for the world of the people of Burma, as expressed in their November 8th election.

So today I'm announcing a Siri's a Siris of actions that are we're taking to begin imposing consequences on the leaders of the coup.

The US government is taking steps to prevent the generals from improperly having access to the $1 billion in Burmese government funds held in the United States.

And today I've approved a new executive order, Excuse me, a new executive order enabling us to immediately sanctioned the military leaders who directed the coup, their business interests as well as close family members.

We will identify at first round of targets this week.

We're also going to impose strong exports controls.

We're freezing US assets that benefit the Burmese government while maintaining our support for health care, civil society groups in other areas that benefit the people of Burma directly and finally, as protests grow, violence against those asserting their democratic rights is unacceptable and we're going to keep calling it out.

The people of Burma are making their voices heard and the world is watching.

Will be ready to impose additional measures and we'll continue to work with our international partners.

Toe urge other nations to join us in these efforts.

Thank you.