The US Senate has given final approval to legislation to impose sanctions on Burma's ruling military junta and will now send the bill to the President for signing. The Act authorizes the President to provide aid to Burma's democracy activists, impose trade restrictions, freeze the regime's financial assets in US banks and install a visa ban on regime members. The legislation was introduced to punish the junta for its recent crackdown on pro-democracy groups and its detention on May 30 of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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