PM pledges £1m to Burma aid fund

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Gordon Brown announced the extra funding after meeting campaigners and two Burmese monks in Downing Street to discuss the continuing crisis in the country.

He also promised he would do his best to mobilise the international community into action so that work could begin to re-establish peace and democracy after the recent violence.

The delegation at Number 10 included two Burmese monks, Amnesty International's Secretary General Irene Khan, MEP Glenys Kinnock, and General Secretary of the TUC, Brendan Barber.

Mr Brown told them that the whole world was watching Burma and that the world's anger had been expressed about the outrages and injustices perpetrated there.

He promised: "We will try to do everything we can to mobilise the UN and the Security Council to oversee the process of reconciliation in Burma, led by the (UN) Secretary General, and for the EU to impose further sanctions to make it absolutely clear that we will not tolerate the abuses that have been taking place and all other leaders in the world to work with us to achieve progress."

Mr Brown said he would work on achieving an end to the human rights abuse and violence that has been seen during the military crackdown.

He said he had already spoken to many of the major leaders, including President Bush and the United Nations Secretary General and that he would continue to press them.

One of the monks, Mr U Uttara, told the Prime Minister that his fellow monks in Burma had no food and medicine.

He said many monks, "young and old", were cut off and surrounded by soldiers, and asked for the British government to help them.