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France’s Total backs Myanmar gas sanctions

Oil major shifts position on curbing source of funding for military regime

France’s TotalEnergies has endorsed targeted sanctions on gas revenues in Myanmar, a shift that campaigners said could hit a significant source of funding for General Min Aung Hlaing’s military junta.

The French energy giant’s chief executive Patrick Pouyanné acknowledged support for the sanctions in a letter to Human Rights Watch, which alongside other rights groups has been pressing the oil major to stop payments to entities controlled by Myanmar’s junta.

“I can confirm that our company has, during the past few months, had exchanges with the French and American authorities concerning the implementation of targeted sanctions on financial flows,” Pouyanné wrote in the letter published by Human Rights Watch late on Thursday.

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